A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors....… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
