Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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?
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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