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From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.
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Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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