Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass - I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."

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Top Frederick Douglass Quotes

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

"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."

"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."

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