You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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