At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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