A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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