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
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. — Juan Williams 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
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Frederick Douglas, Address on West India Emancipation 1857” — Connie Rice Copy Share Image
“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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“ 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
“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
“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
“I can't tell you how I felt when my father died. But I was able to write Song of Solomon and imagine,… — Toni Morrison 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
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the… — Hal Holbrook 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
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
“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
“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a… — Ron Chernow 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
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