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Frederick Douglass Quote - Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Frederick Douglass

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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A 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.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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.
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