Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
-- Frederick Douglass (West India Emancipation (1857))

#Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Injustice #Resistance #Tyranny

#Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

#CORYBOOKER WITH THE FIRE FIRE FIRE

I'm going to stop uploading videos, the ui is groaning from filesizes and i can't upload everything

he's not just reading "Green Eggs and Ham" like #TedCruz the turd, he's spitting truth

this is from hour 19-20 of his no sleep #filibuster

he's in hour 23 now and about to break the filibuster record

WITNESS THIS MAN

Cory Booker on #FrederickDouglass, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrown, #Selma, #StonewallRiots so much more:

it's brilliant

Today in honor of Black History Month, we remember Frederick Douglass, who died on this date, February 20, 1895. In an 1857 address Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

After escaping slavery, Douglass became a national leader of the abolition movement. He also supported the women’s suffrage movement and ran for vice president as running mate to Victoria Woodhull on the Equal Rights Party ticket. In addition to being a brilliant orator, writer and social justice activist, Douglass was also the single most photographed man of the 19th century. He sat for over 160 portraits, always taking a dignified pose. He considered photography a tool for creating a positive image of black men. (Check out the graphic novel about Frederick Douglass by comic book artist extraordinaire, David Walker).

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #DavidWBlight, author of #FrederickDouglassProphetOfFreedom

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-february-17-2025/

#FrederickDouglass #abolition #abolitionism #abolitionists #BlackHistory #UShistory #books #biographies @bookstodon @histodons

The parade to honor Frederick Douglass in his hometown of Easton was cancelled because the #Maryland National Guard pulled out at the last minute.

Their reason-- because it was during #BlackHistoryMonth. This is erasure at work.

"Maryland National Guard out of #FrederickDouglass parade after #DoD order declares Black History Month ‘dead’" #history #dei
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/maryland-national-guard-frederick-douglass-parade-UM7PE6LNMZG5NNQ3Q3OHD6E47E/

The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month.

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/maryland-national-guard-frederick-douglass-parade-UM7PE6LNMZG5NNQ3Q3OHD6E47E/

#DEI #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #FrederickDouglass #Eliminationism
#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #AmeriKKKa

Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.

Frederick Douglass’s Words Ring True: “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand”
https://truthout.org/articles/frederick-douglasss-words-ring-true-power-concedes-nothing-without-a-demand/

Reminder that today is Douglass Day (Frederick Douglass's chosen Birthday)! From 12-3 ET there will be a live stream with talks, music, and good vibes on youtube. You can also spend just a few minutes helping to transcribe Library of Congress records to help make Black stories more visible and findable. You can participate and get connected to the YT and the transcription site through https://douglassday.org/

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

What limits do you want for the tyrants in our government?

Frederick Douglass reminded us that WE can decide what those limits are.

Today in Labor History January 5, 1869: Isaac Meyers and Frederick Douglass organized the First U.S. National Colored Convention. At the convention, they created the Colored National Labor Union. At the time, white unions routinely refused to accept African American members or to show solidarity with black workers. Additionally, employers often hired black scabs during strikes by white unions, while the KKK often recruited within white unions, exacerbating mistrust. Over time, the union became more and more political (much like most modern unions), until it became a de facto branch of the Republican Party (which in those days was known as the party of abolition).

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." — #FrederickDouglass #BlackHistory

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to & you have found out the exact measure of injustice & wrong which will be imposed upon them, & these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
~ Frederick Douglass 
#FrederickDouglass #quote #tyrants

Today in Labor History October 1, 1851: 10,000 New Yorkers busted up a police station in Syracuse to free William "Jerry" Henry, a craftsman who was fleeing slavery in the south. He had been arrested by a US Marshall during the anti-slavery Liberty Party's state convention. Citizens of the city stormed the sheriff's office, freed Henry and helped him escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. There were a lot of abolitionists living in New York, especially in Syracuse, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and a large number of abolitionist Quakers and Unitarians. Consequently, Syracuse became known as the great central depot on the Underground Railroad. Jerry Rescue Day was celebrated every October 1 in Syracuse, until the start of the Civil War. The annual event included speeches, poetry, music, and organizing against slavery. They also collected funds to keep the Underground Railroad running in central New York.

Today in Labor History September 3, 1838: Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to freedom in the north, where he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. During his lifetime, he wrote 3 autobiographies and became a best-selling author. He also fought for women’s suffrage and was the first black man nominated to run for vice president. Douglass opposed colonialism and segregated schools. He was the most photographed American of the 19th century, never smiling once for the camera so as to not play into the racist myth of the happy slave.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #Abolition #frederickdouglass #feminism #segregation #education #colonialism #author #writer #biography #books #BlackMastadon @bookstadon