A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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 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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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