Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat 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 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 DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe 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 DOUGLASSThe District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe 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 DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS