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Frederick Douglass Quote - The ballot is the only safety.

The ballot is the only safety.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
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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Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
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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People
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Character Color Man
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Cause Rebel Worse
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
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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Appreciation Battle Describe Grwoth Lost Moral Nation Observation Patriotism Reflection Requirement Understand Win
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
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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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand

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