Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable. Frederick Douglass View this quote
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. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves. Frederick Douglass
You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don’t speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don’t know. Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
February 14th, 1818 - February 20th, 1895
