A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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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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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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