Frederick douglas Quote by Frederick Douglass

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

“A man is worked upon by what he works on,” Frederick Douglass once said.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Find out what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be…

— ADBanyan

“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

“Summing up Grant’s career, Frederick Douglass wrote: “In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an…

— Ron Chernow

“At an 1870 Anti-Slavery Society convention, Frederick Douglass proclaimed, 'I bow to no priests either of faith or of unfaith. I claim as against…

— Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars

“Until very recent times, few black Americans have regarded the African connection as a major theme in their lives. David Walker, in his 1829…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” Douglass,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand…

— Susan B. Anthony

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

— Juan Williams

“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of how Christian…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed…

— Steven Weinberg