Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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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