| − | * "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box." (15 November 1867) <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA57 Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna]</ref> | + | * "To guard, protect, and maintain his liberty the freedman should have the ballot; that the liberties of the American people were dependent upon the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box; that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country" <ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_and_Times_of_Frederick_Douglass/X8ILAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA333 The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass], 1882, p. 333</ref> |