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 DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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One and God make a majority.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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