Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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