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Frederick Douglass Quote - Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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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.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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