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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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