Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The ballot is the only safety.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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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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