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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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