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Beschreibung | Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography. |
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
One and God make a majority.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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.
