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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Frederick Douglass

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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Color Father Sex Truth
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
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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Earthquake Fire Gentle Inspirational Light Shower Storm
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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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Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Finding Hard Time Slave
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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ourselves People Respect

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