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 DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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