A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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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.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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