Quotes from Frederick Douglass
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
- Frederick Douglass
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- Frederick Douglass
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
- Frederick Douglass
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
- Frederick Douglass
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
- Frederick Douglass
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
- Frederick Douglass
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
- Frederick Douglass
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
- Frederick Douglass
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
- Frederick Douglass
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
- Frederick Douglass
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
- Frederick Douglass