Frederick Douglass Quotes

“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:happiness slavery

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:truth

“They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:truth humanity

“I have often wished myself a beast, or a bird—anything, rather than a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

topic:freedom slavery

“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:religion slavery cruelty

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest,...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:religion slavery

“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:reason darkness morality

“They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:education slavery

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

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:man

“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:learning slavery oppression

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