Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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 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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One and God make a majority.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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