A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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