A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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