Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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