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He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.
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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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
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The man who will get up will be helped up and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
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