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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
Abolitionist
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Talbot County
Maryland
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
Fred Bailey
Freddie Bailey
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Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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[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.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
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As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
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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
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
Frederick Douglass
Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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