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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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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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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
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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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
One and God make a majority.
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God Majority One Liner
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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Carve Circumstance Man Work
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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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