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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Gentleman Insult Man
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Cause Rebel Worse
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Array Character Community Cover Destiny Glory Majestic Shame Share
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Endurance Limitation Prescribe
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Book Reading Slave
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country District Government People
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Character Color Man
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Certain People Work World
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe

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