I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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