“His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.”

  • Frederick Douglass, 30 May 1881
  • Iraglassceiling [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    "Brown, a white man who hated slavery so much that even his friend, the famed abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, wished Brown would shut up about it every now and then." - Sarah Vowell

    • Finger [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Full respect for John Brown. He knew how to give it his all.