It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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 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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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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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