Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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