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Frederick Douglass Quote - Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Frederick Douglass

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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 on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
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
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
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
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
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
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
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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Claim Freedom Men Politics Respect Rights Women Women Rights
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 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
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
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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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise

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