“A man is worked upon by what he works on,” Frederick Douglass once said.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. —Frederick Douglass” — Timber Hawkeye Copy Share Image
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12. — Michael Tubbs 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
...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
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. — Juan Williams 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
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
“Find out what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that… — ADBanyan Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a… — Cornel West 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words,… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
“In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa,… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
“Sincerely and earnestly hoping that this little book may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system, and hastening the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole.… — Cornel West 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
“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
“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
“Until very recent times, few black Americans have regarded the African connection as a major theme in their lives. David Walker, in… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the… — Elbert Guillory 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
“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got… — Ron Chernow 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
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
“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your… — Brandi L. Bates 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
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
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
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
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
Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him?… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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