A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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One and God make a majority.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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