Best Frederick Douglass Lines
- The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. Causes
- The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Black
- A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Always Takes
- When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. Expect
- Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. Expected
- What to the Slave is the 4th of July. Conservative
- Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. Advantage
- I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. Across
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without… Agitation
- The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness. Eternal
- This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must… Any
- My hopes were never brighter than now. Brighter
- Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food,… All
- In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black,… Black
- The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America. America
- The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to… Age
- Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Freedom
- I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Anybody
- I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,… All
- Without Struggle There Is No Success Funny
- I had as well be killed running as die standing Die
- Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them,… Aching
- Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Book
- I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased… Able
- The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… Age
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