We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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 smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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 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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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