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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.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
Frederick Douglass
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
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To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
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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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For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
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Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
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In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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