The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free 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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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