The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.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 only by which men can be free.Frederick Douglass
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.Frederick Douglass
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.Frederick Douglass
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.Frederick Douglass
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.Frederick Douglass
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.Frederick Douglass
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.Frederick Douglass
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
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.Frederick Douglass
I am a man, and, in pleading my own cause, I make the cause of eight hundred thousand equally a cause of my own. I want nothing separated from me that is of me; and if I hold up before the world one right and deprecate the infringement of that, shall I hold up another and ask the world's despite upon it?Frederick Douglass