Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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