Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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 ballot is the only safety.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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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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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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