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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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 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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Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.
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Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid.
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Once you read, you will be free forever.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.
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In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
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It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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