Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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