A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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