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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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