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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one
Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
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- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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↗Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)gutenberg.org
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