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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Array Character Community Cover Destiny Glory Majestic Shame Share
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
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
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
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
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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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
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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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Broken Broken Heart Build Children Deep Men Repair Strong
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
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
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy

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