A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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 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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 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.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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One and God make a majority.
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