Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Immense 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.
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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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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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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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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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One and God make a majority.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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