On the record
They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, spite of all the laws the Federal government can put upon the national statute-book.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, spite of all the laws the Federal…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass stresses the necessity for individuals to have self-protective powers beyond federal laws.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.
Jan 1, 1881
The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…
Jan 1, 1881
In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.
Jan 1, 1881
Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.