The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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 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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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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