Frederick douglas Quote by Frederick Douglass

“The name given me by my mother was, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey." I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I…

— Frederick Douglass

“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

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

— Al Sharpton

“That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given…

— Rosa Parks

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers

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

— Juan Williams

People oftentimes refer to me as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' So, I'm Mr. Johnson. I'm a complete outsider.

— Ron Johnson

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

— Ryan Holiday

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now,…

— Muhammad Ali

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president…

— Jordan Peele

“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from the slaveholder’s…

— Ron Chernow

“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