The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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