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Frederick Douglass Quote - A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

Frederick Douglass

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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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.
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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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