A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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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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