Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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