The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit… — 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
“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
