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Country Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment…
- No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I…
- Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark…
- In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black,…
- The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to…
- I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the…
- A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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