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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
Frederick Douglass
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
Frederick Douglass
Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
Frederick Douglass
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
Frederick Douglass
No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty
Frederick Douglass
My hopes were never brighter than now.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
The ballot is the only safety.
Frederick Douglass
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
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
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
Frederick Douglass
Once you read, you will be free forever.
Frederick Douglass
Let us render the tyrant no aid let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
Frederick Douglass
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
... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
Frederick Douglass
Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.
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