Jan 1, 1881
What though for the moment the hand of violence strikes down the negro’s rights in the South, those rights will revive, survive, and flourish again.
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, 1881
Without abating one jot of our horror and indignation at the outrages committed in some parts of the Southern States against the negro, we cannot but regard the present agitation of an African exodus from the South as ill-timed and in some…
Jan 1, 1881
We see and feel to-day, as we have not seen and felt before, that the time for conciliation and trusting to the honor of the late rebels and slaveholders has passed.
Jan 1, 1881
We stand at the gateway of a marked and decided change in the statesmanship of our rulers.
Jan 1, 1881
Why should a people who have made such progress in the course of a few years be humiliated and scandalized by exodus agents, begging money to remove them from their homes? especially at a time when every indication favors the position that…
Jan 1, 1881
Besides the objection thus stated, it is manifest that the public and noisy advocacy of a general stampede of the colored people from the South to the North is necessarily an abandonment of the great and paramount principle of protection…
Jan 1, 1881
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
Jan 1, 1881
It leaves the whole question of equal rights on the soil of the South open and still to be settled, with the moral influence of exodus against us; since it is a confession of the utter impracticability of equal rights and equal protection…
Jan 1, 1881
The colored people of the South, just beginning to accumulate a little property, and to lay the foundation of family, should not be in haste to sell that little and be off to the banks of the Mississippi.
Jan 1, 1881
A man should never leave his home for a new one till he has earnestly endeavored to make his immediate surroundings accord with his wishes.
Jan 1, 1881
The fact of being to the manner born has an elevating power upon the mind and heart of a man.
Jan 1, 1881
But slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness.