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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
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 have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.
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