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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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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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Let us render the tyrant no aid.
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