The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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