I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass:
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.Frederick Douglass
Your national greatness, swelling vanity your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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 death
Frederick Douglass
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass
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