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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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