Accounts Quote by Frederick Douglass

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

— Steven Weinberg

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. —Frederick Douglass”

— Timber Hawkeye

“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

“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

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

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being…

— Booker T. Washington

“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

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to…

— Samuel Hopkins

“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways…

— Richard Wagamese

My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and…

— Jefferson Davis