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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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