What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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