"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." ― Frederick Douglass Topic(s): Life More From 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 an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." More In Life "What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power."― Lucy Powell "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."― Voltaire "Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."― Anais Nin