The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS