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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
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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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
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.
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People
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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
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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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Education Slave Value
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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Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
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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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White

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