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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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