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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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.
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The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
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I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
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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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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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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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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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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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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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