Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense 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 DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS