Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. —Frederick Douglass” — Timber Hawkeye Copy Share Image
In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass, former slave, extraordinary speaker and writer, wrote in his Rochester newspaper the North Star, January 21, 1848, of “the present… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same… — Karyn Parsons Copy Share Image
“Summing up Grant’s career, Frederick Douglass wrote: “In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“A heavy and cruel hand has been laid upon us. As a people, we feel ourselves to be not only deeply injured,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Right now, Harlem is delicious. On the corner of 125th and Frederick Douglass Avenue, I turn my head south and see Little… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
