I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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