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Frederick Douglass

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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.


— Frederick Douglass


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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.


— Frederick Douglass


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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.


— Frederick Douglass


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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.


— Frederick Douglass


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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.


— Frederick Douglass


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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.


— Frederick Douglass


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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.


— Frederick Douglass


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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.


— Frederick Douglass


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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.


— Frederick Douglass


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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.


— Frederick Douglass


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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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