A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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One and God make a majority.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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