Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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