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A court higher than the Supreme Court
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Jun 28
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May 2025
Let the nation try justice
“When these false reasoners assert that the condition of the emancipated is wretched and deplorable, they tell in part the truth, and I agree with…
May 22
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand"
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
May 5
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March 2025
The direct pathway to freedom
"Slavery can change a saint into a sinner, and an angel into a demon."
Mar 27
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January 2025
Cease to do evil, and learn to do well
“[The Church] is under the law to cease to do evil, and learn to do well.
Jan 22
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July 2024
Slavery would have ended earlier, if ...
“The Church, by her professions, should have been the right arm and shield of this beneficent movement; but alas!
Jul 9, 2024
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January 2024
Eternal laws
“Schooled as I have been among the abolitionists of New England, I recognize that the universe is governed by laws which are unchangeable and eternal…
Jan 22, 2024
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September 2023
Frederick Douglass: Rights are defined by a court higher than the Supreme Court
Frederick Douglass on Dred Scott (1857):
Sep 3, 2023
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August 2023
Oppression appears invincible until its defeat
“David, you know, looked small and insignificant when going to meet Goliath, but looked larger when he had slain his foe.
Aug 21, 2023
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Frederick Douglass: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
A lecture in Glasgow, Scotland, was one of Frederick Douglass’ finest. It’s a masterful exposition in constitutional meaning every Supreme Court justice…
Aug 15, 2023
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U.S. Constitution incompatible with slavery
Frederick Douglass: "the declared purposes of an instrument are to govern the meaning of all its parts and details"
Aug 11, 2023
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"I would unite with anybody to do right, and with nobody to do wrong"
Frederick Douglass refutes Garrison's "no union" slogan
Aug 7, 2023
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