It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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