I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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