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Frederick Douglass Quote - A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

Frederick Douglass

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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Character Color Man
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
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.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Country Earth People Politics World
The ballot is the only safety.
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Ballot One Liner Safety
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
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
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
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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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
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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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Broken Broken Heart Build Children Deep Men Repair Strong

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