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applegrove

(130,077 posts) Mon Dec 29, 2025, 04:19 PM Yesterday

Federick Douglass:

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Federick Douglass: (Original Post) applegrove Yesterday OP

K&R LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #1

Great quote from an extraordinary man PatSeg 23 hrs ago #2

You beat me to the punch BaronChocula 23 hrs ago #3

Ah, so it wasn't just me PatSeg 23 hrs ago #5

That's why I attend a weekly rally. It's important, and 90% approval based on honks vs. middle fingers. People know Evolve Dammit 23 hrs ago #4

Yes and I believe that a lot of people PatSeg 23 hrs ago #6

Frederick Douglas also said, in my favorite quote from him especially in this time, Jack Valentino 19 hrs ago #7

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." live love laugh 16 hrs ago #8

"Power concedes nothing without a demand... alterfurz 12 hrs ago #9

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,572 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 05:52 PM

Yesterday

PatSeg

(52,008 posts)

2. Great quote from an extraordinary man

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 06:24 PM

23 hrs ago

“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

BaronChocula

(3,987 posts)

3. You beat me to the punch

Reply to PatSeg (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 06:36 PM

23 hrs ago

Great minds...

PatSeg

(52,008 posts)

5. Ah, so it wasn't just me

Reply to BaronChocula (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 07:03 PM

23 hrs ago

That was one of his more unforgettable and even unbelievable moments. His ignorance about history and the world is absolutely stunning.

Evolve Dammit

(21,450 posts)

4. That's why I attend a weekly rally. It's important, and 90% approval based on honks vs. middle fingers. People know

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 06:38 PM

23 hrs ago

the danger we are in. Joe Biden articulated it well. We are in a fight for the soul of America.

PatSeg

(52,008 posts)

6. Yes and I believe that a lot of people

Reply to Evolve Dammit (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 07:05 PM

23 hrs ago

though that slogan was corny, but it was (and is) really so true.

Jack Valentino

(4,292 posts)

7. Frederick Douglas also said, in my favorite quote from him especially in this time,

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 10:55 PM

19 hrs ago

"The only way to make the Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make half a dozen or more dead kidnappers."

live love laugh

(16,178 posts)

8. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 01:40 AM

16 hrs ago

My favorite quote of his.

alterfurz

(2,668 posts)

9. "Power concedes nothing without a demand...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 05:40 AM

12 hrs ago

...It never did and it never will...find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." -- Frederick Douglass

"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached." -- Kafka

In their defense, you can't say that the current incarnation of the 1% aren't doing everything in their power to help the peasants find out their Douglass limit, and reach that Kafkaesque point!

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