Abolition Quote by Ron Chernow

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

— Clint Smith

“Frederick Douglass, who had entertained hopes for the Haitian post, graciously conceded defeat. “Your appointment,” he told Bassett, “is a grand achievement for yourself…

— Ron Chernow

“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and…

— Ron Chernow

“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

“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for a civil…

— Ron Chernow

“A heavy and cruel hand has been laid upon us. As a people, we feel ourselves to be not only deeply injured, but grossly…

— Michelle Alexander

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Al Sharpton

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Juan Williams

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

“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