Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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