We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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 am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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