Frederick Douglass Quotes About Brothers

Quotes about: Brothers

• Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Slave, Should

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner (1975). “The life and writings of Frederick Douglass”

• Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Light, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass (1846). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.102

• Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did not understand what they were to me, or I to them. We were brothers and sisters, but what of that? Why should they be attached to me, or I to them? Brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Mean, Grandmother

  Frederick Douglass (1855). “My Bondage and My Freedom ...”, p.48

• The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the North will fling it wide open, while four millions of our brothers and sisters shall march out into liberty. The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Morning, Stars

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE – Astounding Life of One Incredible Man (3 Autobiographies in One Volume): The Most Important African American Leader of the 19th Century: The Escape from Slavery, Life as a World-Renowned Activist against Slavery and Racism & Political Career after the Civil War”, p.740, e-artnow

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