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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken 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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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