A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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