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Frederick Douglass Quote - The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Frederick Douglass

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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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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