The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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One and God make a majority.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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