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Wisdom, Struggle, Fighting. You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. Frederick Douglass. Justice, Diversity, Depth. The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land.
17 de dic. de 2020 · Important Frederick Douglass Quotes About Slavery. To enslave men, successfully and safely, it is necessary to have their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived. A certain degree of attainable good must be kept before them. Frederick Douglass; Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy.
25 de ene. de 2007 · On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most of the address was a history of British efforts toward emancipation as well as a reminder of the crucial role of … Read More(1857) Frederick Douglass, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Quotes Showing 1-30 of 153. “I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land... I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.
5 de dic. de 2021 · Frederick Douglass. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”. “There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”. Frederick Douglass. “I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.”.
23 de feb. de 2020 · “The practice, from week to week, of openly robbing me of all my earnings, kept the nature and character of slavery constantly before me. I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced to be endured. I could see no reason why I should, at the end of each week, pour the reward of my honest toil into the purse of any man.” — Frederick Douglass
According to Douglass, Auld told his wife, “If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave. He should know nothing but the will of his master, and learn to obey it.”. Douglass’s response to Auld’s diatribe illustrates the nature and importance of unintended consequences. He writes, “I instinctively assented to ...
