Frederick Douglass Quotes About Hypocrisy

• Su grandeza nacional, vanidad hinchada; su denuncia de los tiranos, impudicia descarada; sus gritos de libertad e igualdad, burla hueca; sus oraciones e himnos, sus sermones y acciones de gracias, con todo su desfile religioso y solemnidad, son, para Él, mera ampulosidad, fraude, engaño, impiedad e hipocresía, un delgado velo para encubrir crímenes que deshonrarían a una nación de salvajes.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

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

• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hombres, Fuego, Luz

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

• Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

  Frederick Douglass

  Practice, America, Hypocrisy

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

• I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hypocrisy, Fruit, Christianity

  Frederick Douglass, Michael Meyer (1983). “Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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