Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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 DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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 DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
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 DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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 DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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 DOUGLASSThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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 DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS