You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Educate 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.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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