Quotes Tagged With :douglass

The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains....

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

The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has....

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other....

Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence! — fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting....

My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful....

...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds....

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever....

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people....

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead....