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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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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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