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Frederick Douglass Quote - 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?

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 Douglass

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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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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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