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
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. – Frederick Douglass
The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery. – Frederick Douglass
There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass
I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will