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Frederick Douglass Quote - A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Frederick Douglass

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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
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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Color Father Sex Truth
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
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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Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
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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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
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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Ourselves People Respect
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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People
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
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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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper

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