All Frederick Douglass Quotes
- If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… All
- I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is… All
- A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. Ballot
- I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave… Bad
- Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage. All
- He who would be free must strike the first blow. Blow
- They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on… Account
- From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul… Able
- I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that… Behold
- Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere Elsewhere
- Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light… Education
- No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in… Action
- Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life Abolition
- A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men to help suppress… Brazenly
- Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education;… Achieve
- I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value. Attention
- We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Explain
- The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. Allowed
- For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the… All
- 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 barbarity…a… Appalling