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

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"Human rights stand upon a common basis; and by all reason that they are supported, maintained, and defended for all the human family. The essential characteristics of humanity are everywhere the same."

- Frederick Douglass

Belief

"Without this dream, there would be no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Hope

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

- Frederick Douglass

Integrity

"“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”"

- Frederick Douglass

Integrity

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence."

- Frederick Douglass

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

Education

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Education

"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

Education