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.
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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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