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Government Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
- Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
- John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.…
- ...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets,…
- If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he…
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