Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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