A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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