The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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