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 DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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