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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Neither 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.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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 would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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