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 DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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