The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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