The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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