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Frederick Douglass

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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.


— Frederick Douglass


#greed #material #nourishment #food

From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.


— Frederick Douglass


#personal-growth #inspirational

I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.


— Frederick Douglass


#freedom

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.


— Frederick Douglass


#ankle #chain #end #fastened #fellow

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.


— Frederick Douglass


#demand #did #never #nothing #will

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.


— Frederick Douglass


#i #know #out #slave #things

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.


— Frederick Douglass


#limits #oppose #prescribed #those #tyrants

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.


— Frederick Douglass


#get #might #must #people #work

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.


— Frederick Douglass


#answer #i #legs #prayed #received

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.


— Frederick Douglass


#any #belong #black #dyed #freedom






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After this separation he lived with his maternal grandmother Betty Bailey. In this history Frederick Douglass (along with Harriet Tubman) is the revered Founder of a Black state created in the Deep South. The 1845 Narrative which was his biggest seller was followed by My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845 autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave which became influential in its support for abolition. February 1818 – February 20 1895) was an American social reformer orator writer and statesman. Without his approval he became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate of Victoria Woodhull on the impracticable and small Equal Rights Party ticket.

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