Jan 1, 1855
In every human breast, it has an advocate which can be silent only when the heart is dead.
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
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
If there be but one such man in the land, no matter what becomes of abolition societies and parties, there will be an anti-slavery cause, and an anti-slavery movement.
Jan 1, 1855
It is to snatch from the bosom of nature the latent facts of each individual man’s experience, and with steady hand to hold them up fresh and glowing, enforcing, with all his power, their acknowledgment and practical adoption.
Jan 1, 1855
His great work on earth is to exemplify, and to illustrate, and to ingraft those principles upon the living and practical understandings of all men within the reach of his influence.
Jan 1, 1855
The man who has thoroughly embraced the principles of justice, love, and liberty, like the true preacher of Christianity, is less anxious to reproach the world of its sins, than to win it to repentance.
Jan 1, 1855
He may set in judgment on the age, upon the civilization of the age, and upon the religion of the age; for he has a test, a sure and certain test, by which to try all institutions, and to measure all men.
Jan 1, 1855
Whoso has ascended his height, and has the grace to stand there, has the world at his feet, and is the world’s teacher, as of divine right.
Jan 1, 1855
The moral life of human society, it cannot die while conscience, honor, and humanity remain.