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Without Struggle There Is No Success
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Talbot County
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.
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This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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 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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
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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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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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He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
Frederick Douglass
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
Frederick Douglass
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
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