Defeat Quote by Juan Williams

“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if…

— Brandi L. Bates

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but…

— Carl Sagan

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“Find out what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be…

— ADBanyan

“A man is worked upon by what he works on,” Frederick Douglass once said.”

— Ryan Holiday

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from the slaveholder’s…

— Ron Chernow

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

— Matt Taibbi

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

— Al Sharpton

“Summing up Grant’s career, Frederick Douglass wrote: “In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an…

— Ron Chernow

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

“If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?”

— Sue Monk Kidd