We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMan’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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