Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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