I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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