Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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 man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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 is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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