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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: America Binds False Future Herself Past Present

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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Agitation Crops Favor Freedom Ground Men Profess Those Up Want Who Without

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One and God make a majority.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: God Majority Make

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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

Topics: Any Calamity Dangerous Dangerous Thing Indeed Learning Little May People Thing Want

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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Beneath Does Heaven Him Know Man Slavery Who Wrong

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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: July Slave

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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

Topics: About Always Character Color Form Him Hue Less Man More More Or Less Takes Things

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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

Topics: Future Make Only Past Present Useful

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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Gentleman Insult Man Me Will

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Expected Generally Sing Slaves Well Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 14th, 1818

Died: February 20th, 1895

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