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 DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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