Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick DouglassHaving despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.
Frederick DouglassWho would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
Frederick Douglass