"I have often wished myself a beast. I……" — Frederick Douglass
"I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate."
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Frederick Douglass
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171 Quotes by Frederick Douglass
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I…
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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