The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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One and God make a majority.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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