The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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