The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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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 man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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