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
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous… — 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
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong… — 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
“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
I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move merrily… — 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 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
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare… — 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
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
“and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing… — 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
“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
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