The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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