The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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