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.
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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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