At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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