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Frederick Douglass

"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him" — 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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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me" — Frederick Douglass
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." — 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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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." — Frederick Douglass
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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." — 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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"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work" — 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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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose." — 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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"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety" — Frederick Douglass
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"Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers." — Frederick Douglass
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"What to the Slave is the 4th of July." — Frederick Douglass
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"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave." — Frederick Douglass
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"The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men" — Frederick Douglass
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"Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people." — 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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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." — Frederick Douglass
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"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him." — Frederick Douglass
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