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Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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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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