A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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