Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass:
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is deathFrederick Douglass
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
We are one, our cause is one, and we must help each other if we are to succeed.
Frederick Douglass
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
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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