Quotes by : Frederick Douglass

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to....

They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves....

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America....

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

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

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

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding,....

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group.....

The frequent hearing of my mistress readingthe bible--for she often read aloud when herhusband was absent--soon....

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing,....