No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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