The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNeither 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 DOUGLASSPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS