The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe,… — 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
There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a… — 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
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim… — 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
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — 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
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no… — 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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