A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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 ballot is the only safety.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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