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 DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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