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Todays Hater for the Ages: Frederick Douglass

This dude was hardcore. He was a 6'3" escaped slave who made a living telling white people how horrible they were.

When he was a slave, he earned a reputation for being difficult. At 16, he was sold to a farmer with a reputation as a "slave breaker." So what did Freddy D do? He beat the shit out of the guy. Problem solved.

He loved to hate on the hypocritical religious zealots of the South. Just check the quotes:

"I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection."

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

"Once, in a heated controversy over the wisdom of giving the Bible to slaves, he asserted that it would be 'infinitely better to send them a pocket compass and a pistol.'"

Badass.

When Douglass got sick of being a slave, he dressed up as a sailor, forged himself some papers, and rode the train up north.

At Abraham Lincoln's funeral, the dude who was giving the eulogy sucked. Douglass was in the crowd, and he had such a mad reputation as a public speaker that the crowd called for him to speak. Douglass got up and delivered, on the spot, an amazing eulogy for the fallen President. Hardcore.

A final quote, just for Bundy:

"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."