“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
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. — Clint Smith 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
“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
“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
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
“ 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
“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
“A man is worked upon by what he works on,” Frederick Douglass once said.” — Ryan Holiday 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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“At an 1870 Anti-Slavery Society convention, Frederick Douglass proclaimed, 'I bow to no priests either of faith or of unfaith. I claim… — Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars Copy Share Image
Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
As Frederick Douglas, the famous abolitionist, said: "power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." You need… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Haiti as an independent republic accepted the invitation extended to her along with other nations, and erected a building on the World's… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“I am enormously proud to be an American. I would say that the things that our corporate-controlled government has done at best… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
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