A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
