Frederick Douglass Quotes about War

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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

Honesty, Integrity, War

Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1885

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

Frederick Douglass

War, Fall, History

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.

Frederick Douglass

Real, War, Army

"The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865".

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

Frederick Douglass

War, Mean, Men

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

Frederick Douglass

War, Civilization, Territory

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

Frederick Douglass

War, History, Slavery

[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

Frederick Douglass

War, Light, Government

Frederick Douglass' Lecture on John Brown, memory.loc.gov.

...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.

Frederick Douglass

Real, War, Army

Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

Frederick Douglass

War, Slavery, Republic

Frederick Douglass (2017). “Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn”, p.198, Akashic Books

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

Frederick Douglass

War, Men, Helping

"Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings".

Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

Frederick Douglass

Country, Gratitude, War

Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”