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Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular 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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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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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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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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In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
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The ballot is the only safety.
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