He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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