We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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