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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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I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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