It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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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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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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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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