We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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