We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNeither 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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