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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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