On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
A man’s head will not long remain wrong, when his heart is right.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgA man’s head will not long remain wrong, when his heart is right.
Douglass offers a general reflection on how moral integrity ultimately guides one's understanding and actions towards what is just.
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The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.
To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.
None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.
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.