A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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