Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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