The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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