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Frederick Douglass Quote - 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.

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.

Frederick Douglass

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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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