We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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