Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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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.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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