Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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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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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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