Frederick Douglass
"Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother."
-- Frederick Douglass[Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [1845] (Toronto: New American Library, 1968), p. 106
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederick.Douglass.Quote.6515
COMMENTS:
Would Frederick Douglass have supported the disarmament of former slaves in the interest of public safety?
Would he have called for 'gun control' to save 'just one life'?
Would he have given up bitterly contested freedoms on the mantle of 'state' promises of 'security and freedom'??
From the same state the forced non-slave states to arrest and return runnaway slaves back to their masters?
Northern states that discriminated against former slaves or freedmen...
...I really do NOT think that this TRUE HERO of the abolitionist movement would have even considered sacrificing freedom on the mantel of political expediency.
-- Frederick Douglass[Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [1845] (Toronto: New American Library, 1968), p. 106
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/
COMMENTS:
Would Frederick Douglass have supported the disarmament of former slaves in the interest of public safety?
Would he have called for 'gun control' to save 'just one life'?
Would he have given up bitterly contested freedoms on the mantle of 'state' promises of 'security and freedom'??
From the same state the forced non-slave states to arrest and return runnaway slaves back to their masters?
Northern states that discriminated against former slaves or freedmen...
...I really do NOT think that this TRUE HERO of the abolitionist movement would have even considered sacrificing freedom on the mantel of political expediency.
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