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.
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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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