You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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