The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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