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Frederick Douglass

A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave has passed beyond the mists And vapors that obscure the sun of life. And Ethiopia, with bosom torn, Laments the passing of her noblest born. She weeps for him a mother's burning tears— She loved him with a mother's deepest love. He was her champion thro' direful years, And held her weal all other ends above. When Bondage held her bleeding in the dust, He raised her up and whispered, "Hope and Trust." For her his voice, a fearless clarion, rung That broke in warning on the ears of men; For her the strong bow of his power he strung, And sent his arrows to the very den Where grim Oppression held his bloody place And gloated o'er the mis'ries of a race. And he was no soft-tongued apologist; He spoke straightforward, fearlessly uncowed; The sunlight of his truth dispelled the mist, And set in bold relief each dark hued cloud; To sin and crime he gave their proper hue, And hurled at evil what was evil's due. Through good and ill report he cleaved his way. Right onw

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Frederick Douglass

When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered. Oh, not with statues’ rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,
but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.

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Frederick Douglass

African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)

For other uses and other people with similar names, see Frederick Douglass (disambiguation).

Frederick Douglass
Portrait c.1879
In office November 14, 1889 – July 30, 1891
Appointed by	Benjamin Harrison
Preceded by	John E. W. Thompson
Succeeded by	John S. Durham
Born	Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. February 14, 1818 Cordova, Maryland, U.S.
Died	February 20, 1895(1895-02-20) (aged 77–78) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouses	Anna Murray (m. 1838; died 1882)
Relatives	Douglass family
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818^[a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the move