It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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