Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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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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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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