I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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