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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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