I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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