Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – 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
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. – William Blake