A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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