Frederick Douglas Quotes
An American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer; born a slave as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.
(1818 - 1895)
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I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. It is righteousness that exalteth a nation while sin is a reproach to any people.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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