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  1. 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)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

  2. 💔 Couples 💔

    "If one stands in so intimate a relationship with a man as I do with Douglass, one comes to know facets of the whole world, of men + women, which would otherwise remain closed, especially if it is a man whom the entire world has seen + whom so many women have loved."

    A 20 year friendship between Frederick Douglass & German born feminist, freethinker, + abolitionist Ottilie Assing was to end in tragedy. After learning that Douglass had married Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris. As per her will all her letters with Douglass were burned. She bequeathed him ongoing income from a trust fund + his choice of books from her library.

    #couples #FrederickDouglass #ottillieassing #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines #tragiclove

  3. #CORYBOOKER WITH THE FIRE FIRE FIRE 🔥🔥🔥

    I'm going to stop uploading videos, the ui is groaning from filesizes and i can't upload everything 😅

    he's not just reading "Green Eggs and Ham" like #TedCruz the turd, he's spitting truth

    this is from hour 19-20 of his no sleep #filibuster

    he's in hour 23 now and about to break the filibuster record

    WITNESS THIS MAN

    Cory Booker on #FrederickDouglass, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrown, #Selma, #StonewallRiots so much more:

    it's brilliant

    #BookerFilibuster