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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Equality Intelligence Level One Liner
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Carve Circumstance Man Work
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
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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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Certain People Work World
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
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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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
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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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision

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