Quotes by : Frederick Douglass

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods....

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted....

They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect....

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent....

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental....

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing....