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 DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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