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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.

Frederick Douglass

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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Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Country Earth People Politics World
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Carve Circumstance Man Work
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
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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Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
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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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
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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Country District Government People
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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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Equality Intelligence Level One Liner

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