Frederick Douglass

We should all see the folly and madness of attempting to accomplish with a part what could only be done with the united strength of the whole.

If intelligence is the only true and rational basis of government, it follows that that is the best government which draws its life and power from the largest sources of wisdom, energy, and goodness at its command.

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…

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.

Happy woman must she be, that to her was given the power, in such unstinted measure, to touch and move the popular heart!

For solid, persistent, indefatigable work for the slave, Abby Kelley was without rival.

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.

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…

She spoke to the world through every line of her countenance.

Great as this woman was in speech, and persuasive as she was in her writings, she was incomparably greater in her presence.

When the true history of the anti-slavery cause shall be written, woman will occupy a large space in its pages; for the cause of the slave has been peculiarly woman’s cause.

No people ever had a more lively sense of the value of faithful endeavor to serve their interests than they.