I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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One and God make a majority.
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