Frederick Douglass
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in 1845
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass ... (Frontispiece & Title page)
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1846
in 1846
"The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither."
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Inscription by Frederick Douglass to Huldah B. Gilson, dated April 29, 1847.
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on 4/4/1852
"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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in 1856
Portrait of Frederick Douglass from frontispiece and title page of his book My Bondage and My Freedom, published in 1856.
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"The great majority of human duties are of this negative character. If men were born in need of crutches, instead of having legs, the fact would be otherwise. We should then be in need of help, and would require outside aid; but according to the wiser and better arrangement of nature, our duty is done better by not hindering than by helping our fellow-men; or, in other words, the best way to help them is just to let them help themselves"
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"The great majority of human duties are of this negative character. If men were born in need of crutches, instead of having legs, the fact would be otherwise. We should then be in need of help, and would require outside aid; but according to the wiser and better arrangement of nature, our duty is done better by not hindering than by helping our fellow-men; or, in other words, the best way to help them is just to let them help themselves"
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1863
on 7/6/1863
"Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed."
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"[T]he Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government."
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"America is said, and not without reason, to be preeminently the home and patron of self-made men... Search where you will, there is no country on the globe where labor is so respected and the laborer so honored, as in this country."
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"We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put, and which, in both temporal and spiritual affairs, is the true miracle worker."
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"A little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
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"A battle lost or won is easily described understood and appreciated but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection as well as observation to appreciate it."
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress."
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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
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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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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
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"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."
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"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."
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"At a time like this scorching irony not convincing argument is needed."
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