The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur destiny is largely in our hands.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I 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.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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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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