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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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