Frederick Douglass

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Frederick Douglass

Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.

Frederick Douglass

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Frederick Douglass

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

Frederick Douglass

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Frederick Douglass

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Frederick Douglass

For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.

Frederick Douglass

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Frederick Douglass

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Frederick Douglass

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

Frederick Douglass