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Frederick Douglass
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“The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe.”
“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes-a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, — a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, — and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection.”
“The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.”
“You cannot write the bloody laws of slavery on those restless billows. The ocean, if not the land, is free.”
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
“From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.”
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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".