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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass

Biography

Author Profession: Author
Nationality: American
Born: February 14, 1817
Died: February 20, 1895

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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass

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