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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

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

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Future
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Frederick Douglass
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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. – Frederick Douglass

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Freedom
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Frederick Douglass
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

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Black History

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

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Black History

There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Random Quotes

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot

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Jealousy

Strictly Business is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation. – Tommy Davidson

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Learning

Humor comes from self-confidence. – Rita Mae Brown

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Humor

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen

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alone