Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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