Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglas
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
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 didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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