When I came out as a lesbian in the 1980s, I was twenty-three.
In 1872, Douglass was chosen to run as a Vice President on the ticket of the Equal Rights party.
I wished them so much love for themselves that they would find themselves unable to hate others.
Douglass, who was born in 1818, was a former slave who went on to become a social reformer, writer, orator, and abolitionist.