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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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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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