“I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one.  It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded.  The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible.  It is in substance…“Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people” [Proverbs 14:34].  This constitutes my politics – the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics.

I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind.”

– Rev. Frederick Douglass

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