Frederick Douglass

A thousand strong men might be struck down, and its ranks still be invincible.

But slaveholders never encourage that kind of communication, with the slaves, by which they might learn to measure the depths of his knowledge.

Anti-slavery is no longer a thing to be prevented.

The great idea of impartial liberty is now fairly before the American people.

I cared very little into whose hands I fell—I meant to fight my way.

There is no denying, for it is everywhere admitted, that the anti-slavery question is the great moral and social question now before the American people.

Nevertheless, there is that within which ever pleads for the right and the just.

Slaveholders ever underrate the intelligence with which they have to grapple.

He may set in judgment on the age, upon the civilization of the age, and upon the religion of the age; for he has a test, a sure and certain test, by which to try all institutions, and to measure all men.

Whoso has ascended his height, and has the grace to stand there, has the world at his feet, and is the world’s teacher, as of divine right.

Every time the abolitionist speaks in honor of human liberty, he touches a chord in the heart of the anti-abolitionist, which responds in harmonious vibrations.

The slaveholder himself, the daily robber of his equal brother, discourses eloquently as to the excellency of justice, and the man who employs a brutal driver to flay the flesh of his negroes, is not offended when kindness and humanity are…