I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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 battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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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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