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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
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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.
Frederick Douglass
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Frederick Douglass
It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
Frederick Douglass
The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.
Frederick Douglass
Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
Frederick Douglass
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
Frederick Douglass
When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
Frederick Douglass
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
Frederick Douglass
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
Frederick Douglass
[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.
Frederick Douglass
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
Frederick Douglass
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.
Frederick Douglass
Let us render the tyrant no aid.
Frederick Douglass
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
Frederick Douglass
