Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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