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American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
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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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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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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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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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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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I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
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If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
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Once you read, you will be free forever.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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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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