Frederick Douglass

Plainly enough, the exodus is less harmful as a measure than are the arguments by which it is supported.

Not only is the South the best locality for the negro, on the ground of his political powers and possibilities, but it is best for him as a field of labor.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

While, however, it may be the highest wisdom in the circumstances for the freedmen to stay where they are, no encouragement should be given to any measures of coercion to keep them there.

I have often heard her since, sometimes in the solemn temple, and sometimes under the open sky, but whenever and wherever I have listened to her, my heart was always made better, and my spirit raised by her words; and in speaking thus for…

They had “fought the good fight” before I came into the ranks, but by their unflinching testimony and unwavering courage, they had opened the way and made it possible, if not easy, for other women to follow their example.

More than to reason or religion are we indebted to the influence which this wonderful delineation of American chattel slavery produced on the public mind.

Observing woman’s agency, devotion, and efficiency in pleading the cause of the slave, gratitude for this high service early moved me to give favorable attention to the subject of what is called “Woman’s Rights,” and caused me to be…

My part has been to tell the story of the slave.

It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

There were, of course, no conflicting rights of property, for all the people were the property of one man, and they could themselves own no property.