Jan 1, 1881
I have never felt myself isolated since I entered the field to plead the cause of the slave, and demand equal rights for all.
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
I have always felt, too, that I had on my side all the invisible forces of the moral government of the universe.
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
Gratitude to benefactors is a well recognized virtue, and to express it in some form or other, however imperfectly, is a duty to ourselves as well as to those who have helped us.
Jan 1, 1881
Republics are said to be ungrateful, but ingratitude is not among the weaknesses of my people.
Jan 1, 1881
No people ever had a more lively sense of the value of faithful endeavor to serve their interests than they.
Jan 1, 1881
We should all see the folly and madness of attempting to accomplish with a part what could only be done with the united strength of the whole.
Jan 1, 1881
Though this folly may be less apparent, it is just as real, when one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the world is excluded from any voice or vote in civil government.
Jan 1, 1881
Thus far all human governments have been failures, for none have secured, except in a partial degree, the ends for which governments are instituted.
Jan 1, 1881
War, slavery, injustice, and oppression, and the idea that might makes right, have been uppermost in all such governments; and the weak, for whose protection governments are ostensibly created, have had practically no rights which the…