The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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