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Frederick Douglass Quote - A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

Frederick Douglass

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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a 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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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