The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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