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Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
Abolitionist
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Talbot County
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
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It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.
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Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
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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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I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.
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The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
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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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For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
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Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.
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Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
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Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.
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To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
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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 escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
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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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