Liberty for all; chains for none.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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