The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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