The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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