My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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