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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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Education Slave Value
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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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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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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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue

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