Frederick Douglass Black History Quotations

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution