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Letter "F" » Frederick Douglass Quotes
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.»
«Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.»
«[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.»
«What to the Slave is the 4th of July.»
«I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.»
«The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men»
«Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.»
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