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 DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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