The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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One and God make a majority.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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