We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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