Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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 woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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