Tag: Frederick Douglass
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
Frederick Douglass
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
Frederick Douglass
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass
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One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass