Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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One and God make a majority.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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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.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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