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September 3, 1838 - Frederick Douglass made his escape from slavery in Baltimore and went on in life to become an abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate.
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September 3, 1838 - Frederick Douglass made his escape from slavery in Baltimore and went on in life to become an abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate.
#FrederickDouglass

September 3, 1838 - Frederick Douglass made his escape from slavery in Baltimore and went on in life to become an abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate.
#FrederickDouglass

September 3, 1838 - Frederick Douglass made his escape from slavery in Baltimore and went on in life to become an abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate.
#FrederickDouglass

September 3, 1838 - Frederick Douglass made his escape from slavery in Baltimore and went on in life to become an abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate.
#FrederickDouglass

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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A quotation from Frederick Douglass

What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength, than such arguments would imply.

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

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

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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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Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/traversal/

« Trouvez simplement ce qu'un peuple est prêt à subir en silence, cela vous donnera la mesure exacte de l'injustice et du mal qui lui seront imposés, et cela continuera jusqu'à ce que se manifeste une résistance par les mots ou la violence, ou les deux.
Les limites des tyrans sont fixées par l'endurance de ceux qu'ils oppriment. »
(Frederick Douglas)

"Just find out what a people is willing to suffer in silence, it will give you the exact measure of the injustice and evil that will be imposed on them, and it will continue until resistance is manifested by words or violence, or both. The limits of tyrants are set by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
(Frederick Douglas)

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