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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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