A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Fortune 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.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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