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 DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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