A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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