The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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 easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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 had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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