People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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One and God make a majority.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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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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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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