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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.
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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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If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
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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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Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid.
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The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.
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Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
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Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
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When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
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The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.
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