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Frederick Douglass Quote - The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Frederick Douglass

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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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