I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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 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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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