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 DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Liberty for all; chains for none.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS