Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
