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Frederick Douglass Quote - Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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