“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have often been asked how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. There is scarcely anything in my… — 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
My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Such are the limitations of the common mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to… — 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
