I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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