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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS