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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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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
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
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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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
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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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
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
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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Ourselves People Respect
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
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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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
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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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse

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