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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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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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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong

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