The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Educate 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.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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 know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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 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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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 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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