The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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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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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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