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> # Once you learn to read you will be forever free.

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## More from Frederick Douglass

1. > I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

[Permalink to quote \#33](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/33/ "Permalink to quote 33")
2. > There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. …

[Permalink to quote \#35](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/35/ "Permalink to quote 35")
3. > You profess to believe 'that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,' and hath commanded all men, everywhere to love …

[Permalink to quote \#32](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/32/ "Permalink to quote 32")

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