A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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