A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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