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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.
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Once you read, you will be free forever.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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