Frederick Douglass — "I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to b…"

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

"I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted."

"What Wilberforce was endeavoring to win from the British Senate by his magic eloquence, the Slaves themselves were endeavoring to gain by outbreaks and violence. The combined action of one and the oth…"

"The highest function of a citizen is to question authority."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder an…"