The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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One and God make a majority.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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