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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word threreto. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people.
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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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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The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
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From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.
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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 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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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.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
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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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