Frederick Douglass Quotes About Liberty

• El poder no concede nada sin una demanda. Nunca lo ha hecho y nunca lo hará.

  Frederick Douglass

  Libertad, Poder, Tiranos

  Discurso, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 ago. 1857

• La libertad carece de sentido cuando el derecho a expresar los propios pensamientos y opiniones ha dejado de existir. Ése, de todos los derechos, es el que más temen los tiranos. Es el derecho que primero atacan.

  Frederick Douglass

  Libertad, Derechos, Tiranos

  Frederick Douglass (2013). "Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass", p.55, Simon and Schuster.

• La libertad carece de sentido cuando el derecho a expresar los propios pensamientos y opiniones ha dejado de existir. Ése, de todos los derechos, es el que más temen los tiranos. Es el derecho que primero atacan. Conocen su poder. Tronos, dominios, principados y potestades, fundados en la injusticia y el mal, están seguros de temblar, si a los hombres se les permite razonar... Igualmente claro es el derecho a oír. Suprimir la libertad de expresión es un doble agravio. Viola tanto los derechos del que escucha como los del que habla.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hombres, Derechos, Tiranos

  Frederick Douglass (2017). "Frederick Douglass: 100 citas sobre la esclavitud, la perseverancia y la redención".

• Aquellos que profesan estar a favor de la libertad, y sin embargo deprecian la agitación, son hombres que quieren cosechas sin arar la tierra.

  Frederick Douglass

  Libertad, Patriótico, Hombres

  Discurso, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 ago. 1857

• 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

• El conocimiento hace que un hombre no sea apto para ser esclavo.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sabiduría, Libertad, Hombres

• Ningún hombre puede poner una cadena alrededor del tobillo de su prójimo sin encontrar al final el otro extremo atado a su propio cuello.

  Frederick Douglass

  Libertad, 4 th Of July, Patriótico

  Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883

• Los límites de los tiranos están prescritos por la resistencia de aquellos a quienes se oponen.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

• En una Nación compuesta como la nuestra, formada por casi todas las variedades de la familia humana, no debería haber, como ante la Ley, ni ricos, ni pobres, ni altos, ni bajos, ni blancos, ni negros, sino un solo país, una sola ciudadanía, iguales derechos y un destino común para todos.
  Un gobierno que no puede o no protege al ciudadano más humilde en su derecho a la vida, la Libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad, debe ser reformado o derrocado, sin demora.

  Frederick Douglass

  País, búsqueda de la felicidad, igualdad

• I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

  Frederick Douglass

  Trust, Government, Class

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.815, Library of America

• La vida de la nación está segura sólo mientras la nación es honesta, veraz y virtuosa.

  Frederick Douglass

  Honestidad, Integridad, Guerra

  Discurso en el vigésimo tercer aniversario de la emancipación en el Distrito de Columbia,Washington, D.C., abr. 1885

• The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?

  Frederick Douglass

  Love, America, Law

• La educación significa emancipación. Significa luz y libertad. Significa elevar el alma del hombre a la luz gloriosa de la verdad, la luz que sólo puede hacer libres a los hombres.

  Frederick Douglass

  Uplifting, Mean, Men

  Frederick Douglass (2016). "The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches", p.355, Hackett Publishing.

• The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

  Frederick Douglass

  Liberty, Purpose, Slavery

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

• The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Justice, Peaceful

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

• Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

  Frederick Douglass

  Liberty, Constitution, Glorious

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

• Permítanme decirles algo sobre la filosofía de la reforma. Toda la historia del progreso de la libertad humana demuestra que todas las concesiones hechas hasta ahora a sus augustas reivindicaciones han nacido de una lucha sincera. El conflicto ha sido excitante, agitador, absorbente y, por el momento, ha silenciado todos los demás tumultos. O hace esto o no hace nada. Si no hay lucha, no hay progreso.

  Frederick Douglass

  Philosophy, Struggle, August

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

• What is possible for me is possible for you.

  Frederick Douglass

  Black History, Liberty

• 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

• One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.

  Frederick Douglass

  Disappointment, Errors, People

• 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

• No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty

  Frederick Douglass

  Mean, Men, Hands

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.274, Courier Corporation

• No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hands, Tyrants, Iron

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.447, Courier Corporation

• Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

  Frederick Douglass

  Liberty, Purpose, Slavery

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

• ... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

  Frederick Douglass

  Thinking, Liberty

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.159, Frederick Douglass

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