About Frederick Douglass

Escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist, orator and writer. (1818-1895)

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• If there is no struggle, there is no progress.West India Emancipation speech (1857)
• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.West India Emancipation speech (1857)
• I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.Lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement (1855)
• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.Speech on the anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1885)
• To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860)

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• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.Vincent van Gogh
• Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.Vincent van Gogh
• Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.Lucille Ball
• I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.Fred Rogers
• I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does.Fred Rogers

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