Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Our 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.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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