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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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