« All All Quotes · Frederick Douglass's Page
All Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
- What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the…
- 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…
- I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is…
- Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
- 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…
- 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…
- Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.
- Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
- Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark…
- ...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets,…
- Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet…
- Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
- Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search…
- E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for…
- The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the…
- I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in…
- If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by…
- Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- [A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case…
- Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.…
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle