I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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