“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”– Frederick Douglass Related Quotes “The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”– Andre Maurois “A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.”– W. E. B. Du Bois “People are not perfect… very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they’ve had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.”– Patricia Hewitt