Frederick Douglass Quotes
...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Anti-Slavery Office, 1845, p. 118.
Wilkie was investigating a story that Cunningham had steered a defense computer contract to a company that was not very competent or experienced. Most of his Republican House Colleagues allowed this to go on thinking that Cunningham was just providing favors for campaign donations. Wilke could not find any incriminating evidence, but Cunningham had indeed rigged the contract because he was taking bribes from the company. He later went to jail as ‘the most corrupt congressman in American history.’
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
