I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add… — 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
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which… — 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
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
In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. — 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
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the… — 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
[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
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
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
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up… — 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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