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403 quotes from Frederick Douglass: 'Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.', 'It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.', and 'I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.'

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.

“ ‘A man is worked upon by what he works on,’ Frederick Douglass once said. He would know. He’d been a slave, and he saw what it did to everyone involved, including the slaveholders themselves. Once a free man, he saw that the choices people made, about their careers and their lives, had the same effect.

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