At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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