The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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