A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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