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From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

— Frederick Douglass The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)

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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting (1883)

I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)

I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd's plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)

Where there is seeming contentment with slavery, there is certain treachery to freedom.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

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