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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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Education Slave Value
You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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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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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
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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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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 battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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