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.
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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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