Frederick Douglass

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty.

The moral and philosophical; the peculiar claims of the American anti-slavery cause.

I have no sympathy with the doctrine of 'passive resistance.'

The man who is right is a majority.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but much learning is no less dangerous in the hands of those who have no principles.

The sin of slavery is not merely personal, but national.

I am glad to see that the sun has risen once more.

The ballot is like the bullet.

Every man must stand under his own hat.

The work of the world waits for no man, but no man waits for work.

One and God make a majority.

Liberty is meaningless where the remedy for grievances is the wish of the state.

The soul of the nation is in the ballot box.

I have advocated the cause of the colored people, not because I am a negro, but because I am a man.

The rights of one race are as sacred as those of another.

What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any record containing it.

Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.

I would rather be a free man and starve, than a slave and be fat.