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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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One and God make a majority.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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