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Frederick Douglass Quote - To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Frederick Douglass

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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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