The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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