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Frederick Douglass — Portrait after a picture by Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a daguerreotype (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Frederick Douglass

African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist

1817–1895

23 quotes, most often on Freedom, Slavery and America.

Let the nation try justice and the problem will be solved.
Lessons of the Hour (1894)
- Justice
Shall we be citizens in war, and aliens in peace? Would that be just?
“What the Black Man Wants”, speech in Boston (1865)
- Justice
- War & Peace
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)

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