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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
– Frederick Douglass

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  2. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder. – Frederick Douglass
  3. Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. – Orson Scott Card
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  7. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass
  8. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass
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  10. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. – Frederick Douglass
  11. From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells. – Frederick Douglass
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  13. They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family. – Frederick Douglass
  14. The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. – Frederick Douglass
  15. Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren – Frederick Douglass
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  19. I am free. I am ransomed. I’ve never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like. – Frank E Peretti
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  22. A person who is another man’s slave is better than one who is a slave to lust. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  23. The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave. – mile Souvestre
  24. Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice – Nathanael Kanyinga
  25. I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband. – Richard von KrafftEbing
  26. Listen until you’re the smartest.Learn until you’re the wisest.Live until you’re the merriest.Love until you’re the kindest. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
  28. I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. – Frederick Dougl
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  37. I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death. – Steven Ramirez
  38. I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem. – jaime gil de beidma
  39. Everyone wanted me to feed them that story-”darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too. – John Green
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