生于:
1817年2月(实际日期不详)
死于:
1895年2月20日
弗雷德里克道格拉斯 (Frederick
Douglass) 曾告诉一群来自于马里兰州托伯郡 (Talbot
County) 的非裔美籍学生说：「我能做的事，您也能做。不要因为您的肤色而认为您无法成就任何事情。认真努力的增加您的知识，只要您仍是一个无知的人，您就无法获得同侪的尊敬。」出生时名为弗雷德里克奥古斯塔斯华盛顿贝利 (Frederick
Augustus Washington Bailey) ，母亲身为奴隶，而父亲是一位他永远不知道的白人；弗雷德里克道格拉斯长大后成为废奴运动的领导者及第一位曾在美国政府担任高职的黑人公民(曾任美国外交使节及美国驻海地公使兼总领事)。
Frederick Douglass once told a group of African American students from a school in Talbot County, Maryland, "What was possible for me is possible for you. Do not think because you are colored you cannot accomplish anything. Strive earnestly to add to your knowledge. So long as you remain in ignorance, so long will you fail to command the respect of your fellow men." Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement and the first black citizen to hold high rank (as U.S. minister and consul general to Haiti) in the U.S. government.
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