Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFortune 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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