Quotes About Empowerment

Mr. Johnson had just been reading the Lady of the Lake, and at once suggested that my name be Douglass. From that time until now I have been called Frederick Douglass;

I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

I had reached the point, at which I was not afraid to die. This spirit made me a Freeman in fact, while I remained a slave in form,

Bir kez okumay? öÄŸrendikten sonra sonsuza dek özgür olacaks?n?z.

The name given me by my mother was, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of Frederick Bailey.

none to molest them or make them afraid.

H. H. GARNET. We need a thousand such representative

Your faculties remained yours, and mine became useful to their rightful owner.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

Once you learn to read, you'll free forever.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. --Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact. I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed in killing me. From this time I was never again what might be called fairly whipped, though I remained a slave four years afterwards. I had several fights, but was never whipped. It was for a long time a matter of surprise to me why Mr.

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Frederick Douglass

You degrade us, and then ask why we are degraded—you shut our mouths, and then ask why we don't speak—you close your colleges and seminaries against us, and then ask us why we don't know more!

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Once you learn to read you will be forever free

Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.

Das gibt dem Menschen seine ganze Jugend, daß er Fesseln zerreißt.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.