Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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