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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.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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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We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
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[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing
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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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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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...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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.
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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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Let us render the tyrant no aid let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
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