The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS