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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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