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 DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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