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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 Douglass

Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
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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Ourselves People Respect
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
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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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
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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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
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
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
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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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong

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