Jan 1, 1855
It is one of the consolations of my life, that I know of many honorable instances of persons who maintained their honor, where all around was corrupt.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century".
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Jan 1, 1855
Marriage as imposing obligations on the parties to it—has no existence here, except in such hearts as are purer and higher than the standard morality around them.
Jan 1, 1855
The fear of God, and the hope of heaven, are found sufficient to sustain many slave-women, amidst the snares and dangers of their strange lot; but, this side of God and heaven, a slave-woman is at the mercy of the power, caprice and…
Jan 1, 1855
It is one of the damning characteristics of the slave system, that it robs its victims of every earthly incentive to a holy life.
Jan 1, 1855
A woman’s love is not to be annihilated by the peremptory command of any one, whose breath is in his nostrils.
Jan 1, 1855
He may, if he pleases, cripple or kill, without fear of consequences; except in so far as it may concern profit or loss.
Jan 1, 1855
Old as the everlasting hills; immovable as the throne of God; and certain as the purposes of eternal power, against all hinderances, and against all delays, and despite all the mutations of human instrumentalities, it is the faith of my…
Jan 1, 1855
Its foundations are laid in the deepest and holiest convictions, and from whatever soul the demon, selfishness, is expelled, there will this cause take up its abode.
Jan 1, 1855
Such is the voice of experience, such has been the past, such is the present, and such will be that future, which, so sure as man is man, will come.
Jan 1, 1855
Give, give, will be its cry, till the timidity which concedes shall give place to courage, which shall resist.