We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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