There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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