The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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