The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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