Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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One and God make a majority.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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