Frederick Douglass Quotes about Black History

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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

Frederick Douglass

Loyalty, People, Black History

What is possible for me is possible for you.

Frederick Douglass

Black History, Liberty

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Frederick Douglass

Motivational, Black History, May

Frederick Douglass (2011). “In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion”, p.230, Cornell University Press

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

Frederick Douglass

Ignorance, Justice, Black History

Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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

Frederick Douglass

Men, Black History, African American

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ch. 10 (1845)

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.

Frederick Douglass

Inspirational, Thinking, Black History

Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.160, Frederick Douglass