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Frederick Douglass Quote - Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Frederick Douglass

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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Book Forever Freedom Learning One Liner Reading
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Finding Hard Time Slave
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Allow Help Man
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
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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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
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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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Battle Describe Grwoth Lost Moral Nation Observation Patriotism Reflection Requirement Understand Win
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Certain People Work World
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Mad Man One Liner Oppression Wise
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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Earthquake Fire Gentle Inspirational Light Shower Storm
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive

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