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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Across Bay Born Could Eastern Free Free Man Look Man Shore Slave Toward Where I Was Born

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

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Black Cannot Happiness Man Misery Purchased White

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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Any Exact Find Imposed Injustice Just Measure Out People Quietly Submit Them Which Will Wrong You

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Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Answer Ask Asked Beginning Doing Early Everybody Had Learned Mischief Nothing Played Question Shall Us Your

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

~Frederick Douglass

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

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

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Expect Men Rational Reap Sow Whirlwind Will Wind

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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.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Anchor Ark Colored His Hopes Man Party Political Recognize Republican Republican Party Safety Sheet

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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Cannot Divine Inhuman Which

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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

Topics: Advantage Being First First One Fugitive Had Lecturer Out Rare Slave Slaves Then Were

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 14th, 1818

Died: February 20th, 1895

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