My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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