A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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