Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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One and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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