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It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
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I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.
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Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
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The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
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For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
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I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
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Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.
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