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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.

Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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.
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Once you read, you will be free forever.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!
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