Frasi di Frederick Douglass (277 frasi, pagina 10)

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Frederick Douglass frasi celebri

“Hai visto come un uomo è stato fatto schiavo, ora vedrai come uno schiavo sarà fatto uomo.”

Frederick Douglass

“Il destino degli americani di colore… è il destino dell'America intera.”

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“La vita di una nazione è sicura solo finché la nazione è onesta, sincera, e virtuosa.”

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Frederick Douglass: Frasi in inglese

“American slaveholders must prepare, not only to be excluded from the communion of British Christians, but peremptorily driven from the platform of every philanthropic association. Let them be hemmed in on every side. Let them be placed beyond the pale of respectability, and, standing out separated, alone in their infamy, let the storm gather over them, and its hottest bolts descend. Our justification is ample:—the slaveholder is a man-stealer.”

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“Letter to William Lloyd Garrison” (May 23, 1846) https://glc.yale.edu/letter-william-lloyd-garrison-may-23-1846 <br class="br">1840s

“That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made him a citizen.”

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As quoted in Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=1eZvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA858&lpg=PA858&dq=%22THE+RULE+SHOULD+WORK+BOTH+WAYS%22+GRANT&source=bl&ots=zuVqkSgKVz&sig=ACfU3U1qXW6cQbreK-HPuqH9cJQgtGq4Gw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie5aSrgaziAhXIm-AKHbBaCb0Q6AEwCXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22THE%20RULE%20SHOULD%20WORK%20BOTH%20WAYS%22%20GRANT&f=false, by Ron Chernow, p. 858

“I learned, after my mother's death, that she could read, and that she was the only one of all the slaves and colored people in Tuckahoe who enjoyed that advantage. How she acquired this knowledge, I know not, for Tuckahoe is the last place in the world where she would be apt to find facilities for learning. I can, therefore, fondly and proudly ascribe to her an earnest love of knowledge. That a "field hand" should learn to read, in any slave state, is remarkable; but the achievement of my mother, considering the place, was very extraordinary; and, in view of that fact, I am quite willing, and even happy, to attribute any love of letters I possess, and for which I have got—despite of prejudices—only too much credit, not to my admitted Anglo-Saxon paternity, but to the native genius of my sable, unprotected, and uncultivated mother—a woman, who belonged to a race whose mental endowments it is, at present, fashionable to hold in disparagement and contempt.”

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Frederick Douglass libro My Bondage and My Freedom

Origine: 1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Chapter 3: Parentage.

“A man is worked upon by what he works on.
He may carve out his circumstances,
but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”

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