#frederickdouglass — Public Fediverse posts

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 #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

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 #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

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…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #argument #brutality #debate #enslavement #injustice #obviousness #slave #slavery #wrong

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…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #argument #brutality #debate #enslavement #injustice #obviousness #slave #slavery #wrong

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…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #argument #brutality #debate #enslavement #injustice #obviousness #slave #slavery #wrong

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…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #argument #brutality #debate #enslavement #injustice #obviousness #slave #slavery #wrong

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…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #argument #brutality #debate #enslavement #injustice #obviousness #slave #slavery #wrong

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. — The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

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…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #celebration #fourthofjuly #heritage #holiday #independenceday #inheritance #racism #slavery

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

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

On July 5th 1852, exactly 174 years ago today, Frederick Douglass gave a speech at Corinthian Hall here in #RochesterNY, at a gathering of the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. His words were blunt and honest, pointing out the hypocrisy about the laudable ideals of liberty and justice promised in the Declaration of Independence. He forced his audience to confront the truth, that the high-minded assertion that "all men are created equal", was NOT actually being extended to all.

The speech is known under the title "What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?" It is well worth reading again now, on this July 5th.

Here's the complete text of the speech, as published in a pamphlet at the time:

https://archive.org/details/Douglass_July_Oration/page/n1/mode/2up

And here are some central excerpts from the speech, read by some of Douglass's descendants:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5qbnkqoM

#FrederickDouglass #July4th #July5th

History ~ July 5, 1852 – What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? … in memory

https://beaseedforchange.org/2026/07/04/july-4-1852-what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

History ~ July 5, 1852 – What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? … in memory

https://beaseedforchange.org/2026/07/04/july-4-1852-what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

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

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/2…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #DeclarationofIndependence #fourthofjuly #independenceday #liberty #patriotism

https://www.europesays.com/people/137564/ How Roberts led a fractured Supreme Court to wins for the right and defeats for Trump #BirthrightCitizenship #ChiefJustice #citizen #Congress #court #decision #FracturedSupremeCourt #FrederickDouglass #JohnRoberts #law #power #President #right #Roberts #Trump #year

Photography Was Frederick Douglass’ Most Powerful Tool for Abolition https://petapixel.com/2026/06/29/photography-was-frederick-douglass-most-powerful-tool-for-abolition/ #nationalportraitgallery #frederickdouglass #smithsonian #Spotlight #abolition #ambrotype #portrait #Culture #cbsnews #history #News

Photography Was Frederick Douglass’ Most Powerful Tool for Abolition https://petapixel.com/2026/06/29/photography-was-frederick-douglass-most-powerful-tool-for-abolition/ #nationalportraitgallery #frederickdouglass #smithsonian #Spotlight #abolition #ambrotype #portrait #Culture #cbsnews #history #News

Today in Chicago History: ‘Sandberg Game’ at Wrigley Field https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/733333/ #ArlingtonPark #Baseball #Chicago #ChicagoCubs #ChicagoHistory #ChicagoCubs #Cubs #EdwardBurke #FrederickDouglass #HackWilson #June23 #MLB #pele #RyneSandberg #UnitedAirlines

Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines America through its 15 most defining speeches https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/28/ben-rhodes-all-we-say-book #Books #ObamaAdministration #FrederickDouglass #AbrahamLincoln #FranklinDRoosevelt #MartinLutherKing #JohnFKennedy #RonaldReagan #DonaldTrump #PoliticsBooks #Culture #History #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics

Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines America through its 15 most defining speeches https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/28/ben-rhodes-all-we-say-book #Books #ObamaAdministration #FrederickDouglass #AbrahamLincoln #FranklinDRoosevelt #MartinLutherKing #JohnFKennedy #RonaldReagan #DonaldTrump #PoliticsBooks #Culture #History #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics

https://www.europesays.com/news/32739/ How Memorial Day has evolved from its Civil War origins #APTopNews #BlackExperience #Charleston #DavidBlight #Fitchburg #FrederickDouglass #GeneralNews #GroverCleveland #Headlines #lifestyle #Massachusetts #MatthewDennis #MilitaryAndDefense #NewYork #News #PAStateWire #Pennsylvania #RichardHarmond #SCStateWire #SouthCarolina #Texas #ThomasCurran #TopStories #TXStateWire #USNews #Virginia

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 #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

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 #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

#RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

#cats #protest #caturday

#RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

#cats #protest #caturday

#RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

#cats #protest #caturday

#RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

#cats #protest #caturday

@527may, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.

This is our [Black History]. I love this.👊🏾😎👊🏾❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💯💯💯💯

#blackwomen #92percent #blackhistory #blackheroes #blacksheroes #frederickdouglass #harriettubman #mariananderson #thurgoodmarshall #katherinejohnson #shirleychisholm #victorglover #obama #jackierobinson #blackicons #blackmastodon

@527may, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.

This is our [Black History]. I love this.👊🏾😎👊🏾❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💯💯💯💯

#blackwomen #92percent #blackhistory #blackheroes #blacksheroes #frederickdouglass #harriettubman #mariananderson #thurgoodmarshall #katherinejohnson #shirleychisholm #victorglover #obama #jackierobinson #blackicons #blackmastodon

💔 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

🩶 Couples 🩶

“Love came to me, + I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color”

Frederick Douglass & Helen Pitts married 2 years after the death of his 1st wife Anna. He was 66 + she, 46. They married amid a storm of controversy. Both families objected to the marriage. Douglass’ children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their African American mother. Pitts' family, alrhough friends to Douglass + abolitionists, stopped speaking to her. The couple remained married for 11 years, until his death in 1895.

#couples #FrederickDouglass #HelenPitts #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines

Helena is seated in the photo with her sister standing

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

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

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

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

#eBooks - Rogets Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/page-34-project-gutenberg.html#87

#eBooks - The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - #FrederickDouglass
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/page-48-project-gutenberg.html#110

#eBooks - O Pioneers - #WillaCather
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/page-28-project-gutenberg.html#112

#eBooks - The 1991 CIA World Factbook -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/page-38-project-gutenberg.html#114

#eBooks - Paradise Lost - #JohnMilton
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/page-30-project-gutenberg.html#116

#eBooks - Far from the Madding Crowd - #ThomasHardy
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/page-41-project-gutenberg.html#118

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

   Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
   Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1857-08-04) on West India Emancipation, Ontario County Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, Canandaigua, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/2…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #FrederickDouglass #agitation #conflict #demands #effort #freedom #liberty #power #progress #reform #revolution #struggle #trouble

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

   Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
   Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1857-08-04) on West India Emancipation, Ontario County Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, Canandaigua, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/2…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #FrederickDouglass #agitation #conflict #demands #effort #freedom #liberty #power #progress #reform #revolution #struggle #trouble

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

   Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
   Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1857-08-04) on West India Emancipation, Ontario County Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, Canandaigua, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/2…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #FrederickDouglass #agitation #conflict #demands #effort #freedom #liberty #power #progress #reform #revolution #struggle #trouble

Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland by Sylvia Wohlfarth

The most celebrated Black man of his era, Frederick Douglass was also the most photographed American of any race in the 19th century.

https://www.ohfweekly.org/frederick-douglass-in-ireland-part-i/

#Abolitionist #AgitateAgitateAgitate #Belfast #BlackHistory #CivilRights #Cork #Dublin #DouglassWeek #FrederickDouglass #Ireland #OurHumanFamily #LoveOneAnother

Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland by Sylvia Wohlfarth

The most celebrated Black man of his era, Frederick Douglass was also the most photographed American of any race in the 19th century.

https://www.ohfweekly.org/frederick-douglass-in-ireland-part-i/

#Abolitionist #AgitateAgitateAgitate #Belfast #BlackHistory #CivilRights #Cork #Dublin #DouglassWeek #FrederickDouglass #Ireland #OurHumanFamily #LoveOneAnother

Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/02/traversal/

Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/02/traversal/

Heroes, all (minus one)

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1583280/heroes-all-minus-one

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

The American people have this lesson to learn: That where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1886-04-16), “Strong to Suffer, and Yet Strong to Strive,” Israel Bethel Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.

More info about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/7…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #classism #economicinjustice #ignorance #impoverishment #injustice #nojusticenopeace #othering #poverty #racism #socialills #socialinjustice #socialunrest #society #unrest #classwarfare #unrest

#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

#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

#Douglass's brilliance & sadly his resonance. "There are exceptions, & I thank God that there are." However, "the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually
takes sides w/the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, &
the shield of American slave-hunters. . . . this horrible
blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity." (What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)

https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf

#July4th
#FrederickDouglass

#Douglass's brilliance & sadly his resonance. "There are exceptions, & I thank God that there are." However, "the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually
takes sides w/the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, &
the shield of American slave-hunters. . . . this horrible
blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity." (What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)

https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf

#July4th
#FrederickDouglass