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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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One and God make a majority.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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