I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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