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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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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Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
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It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.
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I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
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In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
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Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
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