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.
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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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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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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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