A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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 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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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