The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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 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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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 woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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