Quote of the Day — Frederick Douglass
April 15, 2019
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass
1818–1895
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1818–1895
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in February 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He was given the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey at birth. The identity of his father was never definitively established, though it was widely believed to be his white enslaver, Aaron Anthony. Separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey, at an early age, young Frederick was raised largely by his maternal grandmother, Betsy Bailey, on the outskirts of the plantation. His mother died when Frederick was about seven years old, and he later wrote that he received the news of…
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Frederick Douglass’s words on justice and property safety concluded the April 15, 2019 broadcast, connecting powerfully to Karen Levine and Peter Wall’s examination of Denver’s Initiative 300 and its threat to property owners’ rights, while Jason McBride discussed Tax Day, the national debt, and America’s $22 trillion fiscal challenge.
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April 15, 2019
Word of the Day
Squatter
A person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land, or one who settles on public land without legal…
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Denver’s Initiative 300 and the Property Rights Battle
Karen Levine and Peter Wall examine Denver's Initiative 300, the 'right to squat' ballot measure. Jason McBride on taxes. April 15, 2019.
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