You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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