Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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One and God make a majority.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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