“The better you treat a slave, the more you destroy his value as a slave, and enhance the probability of his eluding the grasp of the slaveholder; the more kindly you treat him, the more wretched you make him, while you keep him in the condition of a slave.”
― My Bondage and My Freedom
― My Bondage and My Freedom
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
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“The morality of free society can have no application to slave society. . . .Make a man a slave, and youmrob him of of moral responsibility. Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability.”
― My Bondage and My Freedom ..
― My Bondage and My Freedom ..
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
― Writings and Speeches
― Writings and Speeches
“Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?”
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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