The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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One and God make a majority.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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