My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducation means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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