A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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