Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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