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Frederick Douglass Quotes

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American Author February 14, 1817 – February 20, 1895

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A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,—before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life. Frederick Douglass
[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 is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black..."
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass
We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. ... We are here, and here we are likely to be. To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed, assimilated, but never extinguished. We repeat, therefore, that we are here; and that this is our country; and the question for the philosophers and statesmen of the land ought to be, What principles should dictate the policy... Frederick Douglass
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must... Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the..."
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and..."
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the..."
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper..."
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can..."
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern..."
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
The soul that is within me no man can degrade. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man..."
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied..."
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. Frederick Douglass

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