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Great man and a great character! He was giving away his food in exchange for lessons in reading and writing. Born in a slave cabin, near Easton, Maryland was separated from his mother when only a few weeks old he was raised by his grandparents. At about the age of six, he was left on the plantation. Douglass never recovered from the betrayal of the abandonment. When he was eight he was sent to Baltimore to live as a houseboy.<\/p>\n
He was secretly taught the alphabet because it was unlawful to teach slaves how to read. When he was twelve or thirteen he purchased a copy of The Columbian Orator, a popular schoolbook of the time, which helped him to understand the power of the spoken and the written word, as two of the most effective means to win permanent, positive changes.<\/p>\n
At the age of twenty, Douglass succeeded in escaping from slavery. in October 1841, after attending an anti-slavery convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Internationally recognized abolitionist, an indefatigable worker for justice, and defender of women’s rights.
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– Frederick Douglass Quotes –<\/b><\/p>\n
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.<\/strong> People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.<\/strong> Take advantage of every opportunity.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.<\/strong> Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.<\/strong> Use the power of spoken and written language to effect positive change for yourself and society.<\/strong> Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.<\/strong> America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.<\/strong> To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.<\/strong> It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Without a struggle, there can be no progress.<\/strong> At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.<\/strong> Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.<\/strong> The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.<\/strong> The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.<\/strong> When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.<\/strong> A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.<\/strong> The soul that is within me no man can degrade.<\/strong> Believe in yourself.<\/strong> A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.<\/strong> I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.<\/strong> The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.<\/strong> I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.<\/strong> What to the Slave is the 4th of July.<\/strong> I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.<\/strong> A gentleman will not isult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.<\/strong> If there is no struggle, there is no progress.<\/strong> We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.<\/strong> Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.<\/strong> One and God make a majority.<\/strong> I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.<\/strong> I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Great man and a great character! He was giving away his food in exchange for lessons in reading and writing. Born in a slave cabin, near Easton, Maryland was separated from his mother when only a few weeks old he was raised by his grandparents. At about the age of six, he was left on the plantation. Douglass never recovered from the betrayal of the abandonment. When he was eight he was sent to Baltimore to live as a houseboy. He was secretly taught the alphabet because it was unlawful to teach slaves how to read. 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