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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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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...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
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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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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
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In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
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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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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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Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.
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These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.
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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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