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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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