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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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