Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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 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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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