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Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
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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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Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.
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It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.
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Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
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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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I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
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Without Struggle There Is No Success
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
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