We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Nature 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.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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