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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet. — 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
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
“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
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
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
