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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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