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Frederick Douglass Quote - Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Frederick Douglass

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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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 whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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