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It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.
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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.
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Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
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We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid.
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