Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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