Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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