The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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One and God make a majority.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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 are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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