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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Book Reading Slave
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Country Earth People Politics World
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Mad Man One Liner Oppression Wise
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Finding Slave Want
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Man Slave Time
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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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Brother Freedom Shame Slave
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Blood Man Safety Slave
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Education Slave Value
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth

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