The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducation 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 is possible for me is possible for you.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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One and God make a majority.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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