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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.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
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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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To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
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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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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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