A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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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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