Frederick Douglass: Citations en anglais
Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (22 October 1883).
1880s, Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting (1883)
Variante: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
“Without Struggle There Is No Success”
Variante: Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Essays
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1885).
1880s
Variante: The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
1850s, West India Emancipation (1857)
Contexte: Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. [... ] Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand.”
Variante: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
“The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.”
Speech at the Emancipation League (12 February 1862), Boston
1860s
Regarding John Brown, as quoted in A Lecture On John Brown http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mfd&fileName=22/22002/22002page.db&recNum=9&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_rvc6&filecode=mfd&next_filecode=mfd&prev_filecode=mfd&itemnum=2&ndocs=32
1880s, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)
Speech, "Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country" http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=535, Syracuse, New York (September 24, 1847)
1840s, Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country (1847)
“Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.”
Douglass' chosen motto for his weekly publication The North Star. It appeared on the first issue. As quoted in Maurice S. Lee (2009), The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass. Cambridge University Press, p. 50; Thomson, Conyers & Dawson (2009). The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 149; & Connie A. Miller. Frederick Douglass American Hero: And International Icon of the Nineteenth Century. Xlibris Corporation. p. 144
Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country (October 22, 1847), Delivered at Market Hall, New York City, New York.
1840s, Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country (1847)
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
1840s, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1846)
He knew the American people better than they knew themselves, and his truth was based upon this knowledge.
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
“The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.”
Speech at the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society annual meeting, New York City (May 1853)
1850s
1890s, Speech at Tremont Temple (1890)
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
Letter http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
Though we waited long, we saw all this and more.
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
About Abraham Lincoln, speech on the 21st anniversary of Lincoln's assassination https://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=4071 (1886).
1880s
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Speech http://books.google.ca/books?id=zFclDyk2LTEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false (15 November 1867).
1860s
1870s, Self-Made Men (1872)
