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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.

Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Certain People Work World
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Humanity Race Rights Superior
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ourselves People Respect
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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Earth People Politics World
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

One Liner Slave
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Brother Freedom Shame Slave
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Freedom Party Progress Republic

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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