1817-1895, American Abolitionist, Journalist
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass – [Gentlemen]
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass – [Right and Rightness]
One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass – [God]
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass – [Past]
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass – [Oppression]