It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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