At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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One and God make a majority.
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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 do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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