“To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

Recorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.

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Source

Title

Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass

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