On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
It is the line up to which the nation is destined to march--the law to which the nation’s life must ultimately conform.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It is the line up to which the nation is destined to march--the law to which the nation’s life must ultimately conform.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the supreme law of the land as the ultimate standard to which the nation's progress and existence must eventually adhere.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.
Jan 1, 1881
The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.
Jan 1, 1881
The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…