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Quotes from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass

1818–1895 United States

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6 quotes

Not only was Sunday a Sabbath, but all days were Sabbaths, and to be kept holy.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

He was never loud and noisy, but calm and serene as a summer sky, and as pure.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored man's cause than those of the Democratic party.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1941)

I was brought into contact with the mind of Mr. Garrison, and his paper took a place in my heart second only to the Bible.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

A simple leaden bullet and a few grains of powder are sufficient in the shortest limit of time to blast and ruin all that is precious in human existence, not alone of the murdered, but of the murderer.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)

When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially anything respecting the free states, was an additional weight to the almost intolerable burden of my thought, 'I am a slave for life'. To my bondage I could see no end. It was a terrible reality, and I shall never be able to tell how sadly that thought chafed my young spirit.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.