Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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