What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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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.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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