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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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