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Quote by Frederick Douglass
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slav

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Oppression
Author
Frederick Douglass
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Future
Author
Frederick Douglass
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. – William Lloyd Garrison

Category:
Black History

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. – Carol Moseley-Braun

Category:
Black History

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

Category:
Black History

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

Category:
Black History

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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, Well, good on you. See you there. – Christopher Hitchens

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. – Saul Bellow

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. – Winston Churchill

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