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Frederick Douglass Quote - The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Carve Circumstance Man Work
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
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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Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Endurance Limitation Prescribe
A man is worked on by what he works on.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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