A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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