The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass:
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.Frederick Douglass
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Frederick Douglass
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death
Frederick Douglass
Your national greatness, swelling vanity your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
Frederick Douglass
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