A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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