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 DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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