Frederick Douglass Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sex, Father, Color

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.91, Chicago Review Press

• I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Distance, Healing

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

• I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Father, Independence

• I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Home, Land

  Frederick Douglass (2008). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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