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 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 DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
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 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 DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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 DOUGLASSNo 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 DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS