Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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One and God make a majority.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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