We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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