Jan 1, 1855
In the midst of human brothers, and yet more fearful of them than of hungry wolves!
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
A sense of my loneliness and helplessness crept over me, and covered me with something bordering on despair.
Jan 1, 1855
It was like the quick blaze, beautiful at the first, but which subsiding, leaves the building charred and desolate.
Jan 1, 1855
The contest was now ended; the chain was severed; God and right stood vindicated.
Jan 1, 1855
A contest had been going on in my mind for years, between the clear consciousness of right and the plausible errors of superstition; between the wisdom of manly courage, and the foolish weakness of timidity.
Jan 1, 1855
Baffled and discouraged at times, I had asked myself the question, May not this, after all, be God’s work?
Jan 1, 1855
All efforts, before, to separate myself from the hateful encumbrance, had only seemed to rivet me the more firmly to it.
Jan 1, 1855
For ten or fifteen years I had been dragging a heavy chain, with a huge block attached to it, cumbering my every motion.
Jan 1, 1855
Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be described, but joy and gladness, like the rainbow of promise, defy alike the pen and pencil.