My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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