Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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One and God make a majority.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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