A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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 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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Fortune 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.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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