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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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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 DOUGLASS

Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Degrade Man One Liner Soul
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ourselves People Respect
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
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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Carve Circumstance Man Work
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country District Government People
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth

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