Quotes by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 and became one of the leading voices of the abolitionist movement. He published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, in 1845 and edited the newspaper The North Star.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.