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.
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 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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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