A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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 would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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