The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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