Quotes by : Frederick Douglass

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all....

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was....

You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move merrily....

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

It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could....

For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

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

Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from....