You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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