I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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