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Frederick Douglass Quotes
«The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
secure, The Nation, truthful, virtuous
«I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
abhorrence, hazard, hazarding, incur, incurred, incurring, incurs, ridicule, true to
«I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
legs, prayed, received
«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.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
exact, imposed, injustice, quietly, submit
«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»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
ankle, chain, fastened, fastening, fastens, neck
«The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Happiness,
Misery
| Keywords:
Black man, misery, purchased, purchases, purchasing, The Black, The Purchase, The White, white man