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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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 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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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