Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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