Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Frederick Douglass

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Frederick Douglass

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

Frederick Douglass

The next best thing to success is a valid apology for non-success. It possesses the means of covering the small with the glory of the great.

Frederick Douglass

The opposite of compromise is character.

Frederick Douglass

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Frederick Douglass

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

Frederick Douglass

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.

Frederick Douglass

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Frederick Douglass