“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” Frederick Douglas

Frederick Douglass
American orator

Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Born: Talbot County, Maryland, United States
Died: February 20, 1895, Washington, D.C., United States
Spouse: Helen Pitts Douglass (m. 1884–1895), Anna Murray-Douglass (m. 1838–1882)
Children: Lewis Henry Douglass, Rosetta Douglass, Charles Remond Douglass, Annie Douglass, Frederick Douglass, Jr.

Quotes
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.