American - Author | February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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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.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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.
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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.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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