Quotes Tagged With :douglass

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,....

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

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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