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A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

- Frederick Douglass

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“Remember that the musket — the United States musket with its bayonet of steel — is better than all mere parchment guarantees of liberty.”

-Frederick Douglass

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“A man too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point. In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior.”

- Frederick Douglass, on Ulysses S. Grant

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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

- Frederick Douglass

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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

- Frederick Douglass

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"There was no such thing as new truth. Error might be old or new; but truth was as old as the universe."

-Frederick Douglass

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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

-Frederick Douglass

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“A man’s rights rest in three boxes: The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."

-Frederick Douglass

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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words of blows, or with both."

-Frederick Douglass

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It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass