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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.
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 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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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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