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Frederick Douglass Quote - Education 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.

Education 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.

Frederick Douglass

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
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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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
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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People
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
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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Country Earth People Politics World
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
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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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Broken Broken Heart Build Children Deep Men Repair Strong
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
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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Carve Circumstance Man Work
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
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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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
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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Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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