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Columbia University, 1960s

Don Giovanni!

Frederick Douglass, February 14, 1818* - February 20, 1895

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879 Series: Portraits, 1862 - 1884. Collection: Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables, 1862-1884 

Born into slavery in Maryland two hundred years ago in 1818, Frederick Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, author, orator and statesman.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

More African American history resources at the @usnatarchives

(*While the actual date of Douglass’ birth is unknown, he reportedly chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14.)

Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

edited screen cap from the politician

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

Untitled.

Denizler Kitabevi Bookshop in Istanbul, specializing in antique maps and maritime books.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (via philosophybits)

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