Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
Frederick Douglass
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
Abolitionist
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Caulker
Diplomat
Editor
Film Editor
Journalist
Orator
Politician
Suffragist
Writer
Talbot County
Maryland
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
Fred Bailey
Freddie Bailey
Irony
Fetters
Grand
Anthem
Join
Mockery
Liberty
Inhuman
Call
Joyous
Upon
Temple
Anthems
Men
Temples
Sacrilegious
Drag
Illuminated
More quotes by Frederick Douglass
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Frederick Douglass
Let us render the tyrant no aid let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
Frederick Douglass
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
Frederick Douglass
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
Frederick Douglass
Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.
Frederick Douglass
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
Frederick Douglass
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.
Frederick Douglass
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
Frederick Douglass
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
Frederick Douglass
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
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
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
Frederick Douglass
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
Frederick Douglass
I had as well be killed running as die standing
Frederick Douglass
It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
Frederick Douglass
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
