Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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 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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