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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.
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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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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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Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
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Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
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Once you read, you will be free forever.
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I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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