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 DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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