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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Talbot County
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
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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.
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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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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.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
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I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
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This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.
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Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
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