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Frederick Douglass Quote - A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Character Color Man
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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One and God make a majority.
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God Majority One Liner

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