A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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 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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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