Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Quotes

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood.

I have often in my sleep been awakened by the solemn voice of complaint, the despairing shriek of inexorable agony.

There were horses and men, too, crying out against a fellow-beeings as being the vilest of thieves and robbers.

I have often wished myself a beast…

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

I should regard myself as a coward and a traitor.

I loathed them with a hatred bordering on desperation.

I was in the midst of plenty.

I had no bed.

Is it not astonishing that, the unhallowed effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder, has been to lead them in the gross abuse of power?

The Vygotskyan notion of response is an immanent feature of the immediate function of the cognitive interpretation in behavior.

The novel itself relates strongly to Feminism.

The Republican party was known to support free labor, which views of abolitionists.

You will then swear and hypocritically pray that you may never be called to act the place of humanity toward your fellow-men, that you may never be placed in circumstances where you would be branded as hypocrites and infidels, by the very men who are upholding the organic law as warranting the traffic.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Quotes part 2

I was educated under the iron rule of free thought and an untrammeled imagination.

When I went there, she was not county’s property.

The overseer then took them, stripped them, and threw them over his own shoulders.

To escape the whip; to elude detection and punishment, by migrating to another state.

He will strive to conform his character to theirs.

I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it.

They favored a plan eminently more practical than mine, and not less humane.

It is impossible for me to say how many times he whipped me.

The unity of Scripture and sense has here.

I have narrated my experience, my education, and my escape.

I have never desired to have them lower.

My religious experience soon sickened and died.

The wretchedness of slavery and the blessedness of freedom.

Who can read it?

There are seventy-two crimes in the state of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death.

It is impossible for me to describe my feelings as I beheld it.

Very soon after I went to Baltimore, I succeeded in learning to read and write.

I am glad I appeared in it.

You will take from the bridge five chains and a half, and put it round your neck and hands in such a manner as to give you immediate torture.

Battle-worn, and faint with fatigue, they returned to the enemy as soon as able to bear arms.

Will you remain silent?

Perfect thanks, and admiration, and love, will be absurd epithets.

It is the only correct way to read and interpret the Bible.

Conviction tempered by experience.

I have only to say that the person that arrested me had been careful not to be known to me, and from this fact I apprehend such person to have been a member of that party.

My blood boiled.

I know of no claims to attention.

There is more of burning eloquence in the denunciation than in the exposition of the character.

Who shall estimate my distance from shore?

I thank him for making me disgusted with slavery.