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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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