The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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