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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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