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 DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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