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Frederick Douglass’ most popular quotes have been extracted from his autobiographies, publications and speeches.
Education
“Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere”
– Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
“Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave”.
– Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
“Education means emancipation.
Biography frederick douglass autobiography quotes
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.”
– Frederick Douglass, Blessings of Liberty and Education. Speech.
1894.
Society
“Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.”
– Frederick Douglass, Letter to Mrs. Stowe, Rochester, March 8, 1853.
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place!
– Frederick Douglass, The Church a