A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
(Speech at a highschool in Maryland, 1894)
Frederick Douglass
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Once you learn to read, you will forever be free. It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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