Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838.
Here are a few quotes by Fredrick Douglass.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Here is a link to the history channel where you can learn all about this amazing man and all the great things he achieved in his lifetime.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass#who-was-frederick-douglass
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