Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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