Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The ballot is the only safety.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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It 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.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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