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Quote by Frederick Douglass
Mans greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper applic

Mans greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. – Frederick Douglass

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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. – Frederick Douglass

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Freedom
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Frederick Douglass
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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. – Frederick Douglass

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Society
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Frederick Douglass
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Things dont go wrong, they simply happen. – Jacob Ghitis

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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. – David Starr Jordan

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In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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