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 DOUGLASSA 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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 have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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