A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick DouglassYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Frederick DouglassYou degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.
Frederick DouglassEvery tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
Frederick Douglass