I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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