Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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