A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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