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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
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1) “Without struggle there's no success”
Frederick Douglass thought it was worth writing this quote because it symbolise how he became someone for all the free slaves and his community. It means that without his hard work as a slave nothing of what he has done would mean so little to everyone else.
2) “It’s easier to build strong children than repair broken men”
The author wrote the quote by saing that you can make difference in a childe than helping a grown men change.
3) “For of all Slaveholders with whom I ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, off all others.”
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