Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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