We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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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 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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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