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 District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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