The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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?
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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