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Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
Abolitionist
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Talbot County
Maryland
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
Fred Bailey
Freddie Bailey
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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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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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[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.
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I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
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Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
Frederick Douglass
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
Frederick Douglass
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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