Tag: Frederick Douglass
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
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Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
Frederick Douglass
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
Frederick Douglass
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass