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 DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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 do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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