Frederick Douglass

My next answer is, that the slave is a man, and, as such, is entitled to your sympathy as a brother.

My answer is, first, that slavery is the common enemy of mankind, and all mankind should be made acquainted with its abominable character.

The rigors of a field, less tolerable than the field of battle, awaited me.

Women—white women, I mean—are IDOLS at the south, not WIVES, for the slave women are preferred in many instances; and if these idols but nod, or lift a finger, woe to the poor victim: kicks, cuffs and stripes are sure to follow.

It is because I love this religion that I hate the slaveholding, the woman-whipping, the mind-darkening, the soul-destroying religion that exists in the southern states of America.

If you claim to act for yourself, it says, allow your neighbors the same right.

This, to a hungry man, is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

If you claim a right to think for yourself, it says, allow your neighbors the same right.

If you demand liberty to yourself, it says, grant it to your neighbors.

But to whatever motive, direct or indirect, the cause may be referred, I had not been in his possession three whole days, before he subjected me to a most brutal chastisement.

She hates its very presence, and when a slaveholding woman hates, she wants not means to give that hate telling effect.

I love that religion that is based upon the glorious principle, of love to God and love to man; which makes its followers do unto others as they themselves would be done by.