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 DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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 man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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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 is worked on by what he works on.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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