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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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