I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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