People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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