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Quotes from The Heroic Slave — Frederick Douglass

1818–1895 United States

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Where there is seeming contentment with slavery, there is certain treachery to freedom.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

The gnawings of hunger conquers by degrees, till all that a man has he would give in exchange for a single crust of bread.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

You cannot write the bloody laws of slavery on those restless billows. The ocean, if not the land, is free.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

The lonely billows of the Atlantic, where every breeze speaks of courage and liberty.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

The man who prays in secret is far more likely to be sincere than he who loves to pray standing in the street, or in the great congregation.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

Attribution

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