Frederick-douglass Quotes

The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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