Frederick Douglass Black Quotations

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.