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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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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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Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
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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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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