Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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