Frederick Douglass Quotes about Justice

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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Frederick Douglass

Justice, Diversity, Depth

The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression.

Frederick Douglass

Men, Justice, Peaceful

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In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

Frederick Douglass

Struggle, Opportunity, Justice

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

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Frederick Douglass

July, Years, Justice

Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Frederick Douglass

Men, Justice, Diversity

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

People, Justice, Pity

Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

Frederick Douglass

College, Justice, Diversity

Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.4, Chicago Review Press

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

Frederick Douglass

Men, Rights, Justice

Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.102, Chicago Review Press

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

Justice, Pity, Benevolence

Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

Frederick Douglass

Hands, Justice, Diversity

Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.402, Chicago Review Press

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

Frederick Douglass

Giving, Justice, Legs

Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

Frederick Douglass

Healing, July, Justice

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852