Quotes from Frederick Douglass
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
- Frederick Douglass
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
- Frederick Douglass
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
- Frederick Douglass
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- Frederick Douglass
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
- Frederick Douglass
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
- Frederick Douglass
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.
- Frederick Douglass
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
- Frederick Douglass
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.
- Frederick Douglass
A man is worked on by what he works on.
- Frederick Douglass
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
- Frederick Douglass
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
- Frederick Douglass