Jan 1, 1855
Like the fires of the prairie, once lighted, they are at the mercy of every wind, and must burn, till they have consumed all that is combustible within their remorseless grasp.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century".
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Jan 1, 1855
The difference between abolitionists and those by whom they are opposed, is not as to principles.
Jan 1, 1855
In whatever else men may differ, they are alike in the apprehension of their natural and personal rights.
Jan 1, 1855
A man that does not recognize and approve for himself the rights and privileges contended for, in behalf of the American slave, has not yet been found.
Jan 1, 1855
It comes home to every man’s understanding, and appeals directly to every man’s conscience.
Jan 1, 1855
In every human breast, it has an advocate which can be silent only when the heart is dead.
Jan 1, 1855
It can call its preachers from among the fishermen, and raise them to power.
Jan 1, 1855
The grand secret of its power is, that each of its principles is easily rendered appreciable to the faculty of reason in man, and that the most unenlightened conscience has no difficulty in deciding on which side to register its testimony.
Jan 1, 1855
Under the whole heavens there is no relation more unfavorable to the development of honorable character, than that sustained by the slaveholder to the slave.