Quote by Frederick Douglass
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and apprecia

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

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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Oppression
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass

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work
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass

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Future
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Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. – Mitt Romney

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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great

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. – Thomas Huxley

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great

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine. – Billy Graham

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great

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To be able to throw ones self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a womans smile – that is happiness. – Hermann Hesse

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. – Mohammed

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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. – John F. Kennedy

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motivational

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isnt forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it. – David Deutsch

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Travel