Original: «Men have their choice in this world. They can be angels, or they may be demons. In the apocalyptic vision, John describes a war in heaven. You have only to strip that vision of its gorgeous Oriental drapery, divest it of its shining and celestial ornaments, clothe it in the simple and familiar language of common sense, and you will have before you the eternal conflict between right and wrong, good and evil, liberty and slavery, truth and falsehood, the glorious light of love, and the appalling darkness of human selfishness and sin. The human heart is a seat of constant war… Just what takes place in individual human hearts, often takes place between nations, and between individuals of the same nation».
Fuente: Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Editorial LSU Press, 1991. ISBN 9780807117248. p. 110.
Frases célebres de Frederick Douglass
En aquella época el partido demócrata era el que luchaba por el mantenimiento de la esclvitud, y su mayoría de votos provenía de los estados esclavistas del sur de Estados Unidos.
Original: «I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored man's cause than those of the Democratic party».
Fuente: The Frederick Douglass Papers: Autobiographical Writings, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Editor Jesse S. Crisler. Editorial Yale University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780300176346. p. 408.
“Es más fácil construir niños fuertes que arreglar hombres rotos.”
Fuente: Citado en Bilbao, Álvaro. El cerebro del niño explicado a los padres. Editorial Plataforma, 2015. ISBN 9788416429578.
Original: «Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren».
Fuente: The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia. Editores Julius E. Thompson, James L. Conyers Jr., Nancy J. Dawson. Edición ilustrada. Editorial ABC-CLIO, 2009. ISBN 9780313385599. p. 149.
Carta dirigida a su antiguo maestro Thomas Auld.
Original: «Your wickedness and cruelty committed in this respect on your fellow creatures, are greater than all the stripes you have laid upon my back or theirs. It is an outrage upon the soul, a war upon the immortal spirit, and one for which you must give account at the bar of our common Father and Creator».
Fuente: Douglass, Frederick. The Frederick Douglass Papers: Correspondence. 1842-1852, Volumen 1. Editorial Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780300135602. p. 315.
Original: «I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men».
Fuente: The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass. Editor Maurice S. Lee. Editorial Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780521889230. p. 70.
Original: «They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me».
Fuente: Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels: The Underground Railroad, Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, 12 Years a Slave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, History of Abolitionism, Lynch Law, Civil Rights Acts, New Amendments and much more. Autores Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet E. Wilson, y muchos más.. Editorial e-artnow, 2017 ISBN 9788026873754.
Original: «The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe».
Fuente: Frederick Douglass. Editorial Ardent Media, 1884. p. 212.
Frederick Douglass: Frases en inglés
“The Republican Party is the ship and all else is the sea around us.”
As quoted in Frederick Douglass American Hero http://books.google.com/books?id=9ykO8sKDE30C&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=%22I+know+the+man.+I+like+a+man+in+the+Presidential+chair%22&source=bl&ots=0JRNsxNa8j&sig=UJpkupLqhe7-DOrhKxCYSCo7EcY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FA9lU5z5JsnQsQTM1YH4CA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22I%20know%20the%20man.%20I%20like%20a%20man%20in%20the%20Presidential%20chair%22&f=false (2008), by Connie A. Miller, Sr., p. 277
Variante: For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.
“Despite of it all, the Negro remains … cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.”
Speech on the twenty-first anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1883).
1880s, Speech on the Anniversary of Emancipation (1883)
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
They died for their country.
1870s, The Unknown Loyal Dead (1871)
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Speech at the New England Woman Suffrage Association (May 24, 1886) Nicholas Buccola, edit., The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings & Speeches, Hackett Publishing Company, 2016, p. 307. Sometimes referred to as his “Who and What is Woman?” speech
1880s
1860s, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (1860)
"The Lesson of Emancipation to the New York Generation: An Address Delivered in Elmira, New York" (3 August 1880), as quoted in The Frederick Douglass Papers http://tfdf.org/blog/2012/05/15/why-i-am-a-republican-by-dr-james-taylor/, Volume 4, p. 581. Douglass is referring to Psalm 137:5-6.
1880s, The Lesson of Emancipation to the New York Generation (1880)
Inhumanity of Slavery. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester. December 8, 1850
1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Fuente: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 10
Appendix
1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Douglass Monthly https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192511/http://deadconfederates.com/tag/black-confederates/#_edn2 (March 1862), p. 623
1860s
1880s, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)
1880s, The Future of the Colored Race (1886)
Fuente: 1880s, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), pp. 110–111.
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
Regarding John Brown, address at the 14th anniversary of Storer College http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/bbspr05-0032.html (30 May 1881)
1880s, Address at the Anniversary of Storer College (1881)
Appendix
1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
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. 84