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I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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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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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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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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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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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.
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It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
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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 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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