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 DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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