I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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