Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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