black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Argument Convince Iron Need Time
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country District Government People
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Character Color Man
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Book Reading Slave
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

People
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Finding Slave Want
One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

God Majority One Liner
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Earth People Politics World
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

Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ourselves People Respect

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Frederick Douglass Quotes