This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected. — 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
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that… — 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
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
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
“And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty, and… — 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
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
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
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — 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
“Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I… — 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
“You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The South must be opened to the light of law and liberty, and this session of Congress is relied upon to accomplish… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to… — 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
“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born… — 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
![“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation’s life, and those who struck to save it—those who fought for slavery, and those who fought for liberty and justice. I…” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/886/frederick-douglass-859_civil-war_we-are-sometimes-asked-in-the-name-of-pa_1761326.jpg)
