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 DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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