Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe 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 DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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 DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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 DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS