Frederick douglas Quote by ADBanyan

Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years. Black thinkers…

— Shelby Steele

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. —Frederick Douglass”

— Timber Hawkeye

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand.…

— Jill Stein

They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded…

— Frederick Douglass

I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense, I'm…

— Cornel West

“The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our…

— Chris Hedges

“Frederick Douglass, former slave, extraordinary speaker and writer, wrote in his Rochester newspaper the North Star, January 21, 1848, of “the present disgraceful, cruel,…

— Howard Zinn

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln,…

— Barack Obama

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of…

— Cornel West

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but…

— Carl Sagan