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A quotation from Frederick Douglass

Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

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People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)

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Once a vibrant Nacotchtank trading village, 1 of America’s only #Antebellum suburbs & longtime home to overlooked founding father #FrederickDouglass, #Anacostia is jam-packed w layers of history, bureaucracy, neglect, hope. Anacostia Historic District, DC’s only residential #historicdistrict east of Anacostia River is stewarded by advocate-citizens determined to resist corrosive dev. BLDUS works to add housing w compromising dignity of delicate historic fabric https://bld.us/architecture/anacostia-neighborhood/?stream=top #housing