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.
Frederick DouglassI recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick DouglassWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
Frederick Douglass