Jan 1, 1881
It is another illustration of how any advance in pursuance of a right principle, prepares and makes easy the way to another.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century".
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Jan 1, 1881
The way of transgression is a bottomless pit, one step in that direction invites the next, and the end is never reached; and it is the same with the path of righteous obedience.
Jan 1, 1881
A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.
Jan 1, 1881
Experience proves that those are most abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity.
Jan 1, 1881
Peace between races is not to be secured by degrading one race and exalting another, by giving power to one race and withholding it from another, but by maintaining a state of equal justice between all classes.
Jan 1, 1881
Besides, the worst enemy of the nation could not cast upon its fair name a greater infamy than to admit that negroes could be tolerated among them in a state of the most degrading slavery and oppression, and must be cast away, driven into…
Jan 1, 1881
He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.
Jan 1, 1881
It seems strange now, in view of all the progress which has been made, that such a question could arise.
Jan 1, 1881
Would you not be branded all over the land as dastardly hypocrites, professing principles which you have no wish or intention of carrying out?
Jan 1, 1881
The people were more enlightened and had made more progress than their leaders had supposed.
Jan 1, 1881
No loftier tribute can be paid to the most illustrious of all the benefactors of mankind than we pay to these unrecognized soldiers, when we write above their graves this shining epitaph.