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 DOUGLASSFortune 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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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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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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