It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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