I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway?… — 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
