Frederick DouglassI have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and … ▶371LifePoliticsThought
Frederick DouglassI recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. ✨ Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg… ▶372HopePolitics
Frederick DouglassThis struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never … ▶373HumanityPoliticsReading
Frederick DouglassFor of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.… ▶362Life
Frederick DouglassNow, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principl… ▶341LifeReadingTime
Frederick DouglassThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.363Truth
Frederick DouglassThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution341Humanity
Frederick DouglassI could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.352Sadness
Frederick DouglassWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.374Hope
Frederick DouglassI have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking… ▶364LifeThought
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. ✨ Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington,… ▶342Reading
Frederick DouglassIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.375Hope
Frederick DouglassPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.343Reflection
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. … ▶321Reflection
Frederick DouglassTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. ✨ Frederick Douglass (2013). Selected Addresses of Frederick… ▶343Sadness
Frederick DouglassFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from ever… ▶344LifeReading
Frederick DouglassNo, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignat… ▶333LoveTruth
Frederick DouglassViewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a s… ▶355PoliticsTime
Frederick DouglassBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .355HopeTime
Frederick DouglassThe sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. ✨ What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, d… ▶367DeathLife
Frederick DouglassThe thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act… ▶356HopeThoughtTime
Frederick Douglass[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but… ▶356LoveTruth
Frederick DouglassWithout Struggle There Is No Success356Love
Frederick DouglassOne and God make a majority.301Reading
Frederick DouglassI am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.367Politics
Frederick DouglassIf there's no struggle, there's no progress. ✨ Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857291Death
Frederick Douglass... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty. ✨ Frederick Douglass (2016). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, p.159, Frederick Douglass291LifeThought
Frederick DouglassShields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a d… ▶335LifeTime
Frederick DouglassEducation means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.… ▶291Truth
Frederick DouglassWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. ✨ What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852357HopeTime
