People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

Personal independence is a virtue

The lesson taught at this point by human experience is simply this, that the man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.

slip:4a16.

Truth

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

slip:4a663.

#FotoVorschlag

“Chic”

Frederick Douglass’ first pocket watch. Douglass wrote that, for a formerly enslaved man, it was more than just a fashionable item — it was a powerful sign that he was free and that his time was now his own.

More in the alt text.

#photography #history #blackhistory #frederickdouglass #watch #watches #museum #metmuseum

#RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

#cats #protest #caturday