Religion Quotes by Frederick Douglass

10 Religion quotes by Frederick Douglass

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This page presents ten of Douglass’s remarks on religion, each a potent reminder of how he linked faith with the struggle for freedom. The collection is brief, yet it captures the power of his convictions and moral urgency.

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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

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For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest…

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I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated,…

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I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the…

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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the…

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From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me…

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“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier…

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“forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. They are always…

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“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.…

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“I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to be relied upon in…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,…

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“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of…

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as…

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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my…

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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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