A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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 on by what he works on.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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