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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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Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid.
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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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Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
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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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I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
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Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.
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It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
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The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.
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As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.
Frederick Douglass
If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
Frederick Douglass
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
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