The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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 man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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