Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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