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Nation Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
- I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is…
- Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search…
- Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
- The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- 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,…
- In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black,…
- The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to…
- 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…
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