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Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Talbot County
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More quotes by Frederick Douglass
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
Frederick Douglass
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
Frederick Douglass
Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.
Frederick Douglass
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
Let us render the tyrant no aid.
Frederick Douglass
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
Let us render the tyrant no aid let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
Frederick Douglass
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
Frederick Douglass
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
Frederick Douglass
I had as well be killed running as die standing
Frederick Douglass
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
Frederick Douglass
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
Without Struggle There Is No Success
Frederick Douglass
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Frederick Douglass
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
Frederick Douglass
