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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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