We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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 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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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