The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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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.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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