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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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 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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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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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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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