My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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One and God make a majority.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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