The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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