A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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