A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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 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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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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