A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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