Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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