A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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