The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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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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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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