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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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