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“I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall…”

Frederick Douglass

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its 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. It is…

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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

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“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to…

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

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