I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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One and God make a majority.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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