We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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One and God make a majority.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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