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 DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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