Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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