Jan 1, 1855
This fact proves that if we cannot rise to the whites, the whites can fall to us.
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
May God give her repentance, before it is too late, is the ardent prayer of my heart.
Jan 1, 1855
White men are becoming house-servants, cooks, and stewards, common laborers, and flunkeys to our gentry, and, for aught I see, they adjust themselves to their stations with all becoming obsequiousness.
Jan 1, 1855
Every hour sees us elbowed out of some employment to make room perhaps for some newly-arrived emigrants, whose hunger and color are thought to give them a title to especial favor.
Jan 1, 1855
He will find that in assuming our avocation he also has assumed our degradation.
Jan 1, 1855
The cruel lie is told the Irish, that our adversity is essential to their prosperity.
Jan 1, 1855
She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies.
Jan 1, 1855
They are taught to believe that we eat the bread which of right belongs to them.
Jan 1, 1855
The Irish people, warm-hearted, generous, and sympathizing with the oppressed everywhere, when they stand upon their own green island, are instantly taught, on arriving in this Christian country, to hate and despise the colored people.
Jan 1, 1855
We see here the black man attacked in his vital interests; prejudice and hate are excited against him; enmity is stirred up between him and other laborers.
Jan 1, 1855
For, of all the places in the world where an anti-slavery man needs the confidence and encouragement of friends, I take Washington to be that place.