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When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline, and the wheels of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other will stop.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline, and the wheels of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how…”
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This statement warns of the dangers of declining moral standards and societal progress.
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