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.
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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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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