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Frederick Douglass Quote - I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass

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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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