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“The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.”
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“Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.”
― Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
― Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
“I have gotten a large part of my education from actual contact with things, rather than through the medium of books. I like to touch things and handle them; I like to watch plants grow and observe the behaviour of animals.”
― My Larger Education
― My Larger Education
“They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.”
― Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
― Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
“At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour’s own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.”
― Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
― Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
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