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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 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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Allow Help Man
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
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.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
One and God make a majority.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
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 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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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