All Frederick Douglass Quotes
- 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
- There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own… American
- It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its… Bold
- One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to… Advancing
- To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as… Annihilate
- Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment… Abolition
- Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on… Black
- Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the… America
- Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. All
- No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I… America
- Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine Horse