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This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
— Frederick Douglass
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
— Frederick Douglass
Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
— Nipsey Russell
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
— Frederick Douglass
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
— Frederick Douglass
I don't know how to speak to everybody, only to somebody.
— Howard Gossage
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
— Frederick Douglass
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
— Frederick Douglass
Love is like the sun; in warming others, it warms itself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
— Frederick Douglass
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
— Frederick Douglass
Without any appeal to books, to laws, or to authorities of any kind, it was enough to accept God as a father, to regard slavery as a crime. I
— Frederick Douglass
There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
— Frederick Douglass
I hear the mournful wail of millions!
— Frederick Douglass
Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
— Tammy Faye Bakker
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
— Juan Williams
For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.
— Frederick Douglass
The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.
— Harold Holzer
Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.
— Matthew Henry
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life
— Frederick Douglass
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
— Frederick Douglass
Autumn arrives in the early morning.
— Elizabeth Bowen