In a speech delivered on November 15, 1867, Douglass said "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex".
Douglass was a former slave, who escaped and became a leading Abolitionist.
Remember this when some modern day agitators want to grab your gun.
Douglass said Lincoln was America's greatest President. It was Lincoln who said of the Dred Scott decision that the power of the Supreme Court is not supreme after all.
“If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,” wrote Abraham Lincoln, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”
The cartridge box guarantees your access to the ballot box, which, via the vote, can nullify anything the Supreme Court wants to say one way or the other.
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