The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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 man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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