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.
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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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