Frederick Douglass Slavery Quotations

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

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

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

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

I hear the mournful wail of millions!