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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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Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
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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 escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
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I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.
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