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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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