Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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