Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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 easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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