Frases de Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass fue un escritor, editor y orador abolicionista estadounidense, famoso como reformador social. Fue conocido como El Sabio de Anacostia o El León de Anacostia, y es uno de los escritores afroamericanos más importantes de su época y de la historia de los Estados Unidos.

✵ 14. febrero 1818 – 20. febrero 1895   •   Otros nombres Φρέντερικ Ντάγκλας, ფრედერიკ დუგლასი, فردریک داقلاس, பிரெடரிக் டக்ளஸ்
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Frases célebres de Frederick Douglass

“Los hombres tienen su elección en este mundo. Pueden ser ángeles, o pueden ser demonios. En la visión apocalíptica, Juan describe una guerra en el cielo. Basta con despojar esa visión de sus preciosas cortinas orientales, despojarla de sus ornamentos brillantes y celestiales, vestirla con el lenguaje simple y familiar del sentido común, y tendrá ante usted el eterno conflicto entre lo correcto y lo incorrecto, lo bueno y lo malo, la libertad y la esclavitud, la verdad y la falsedad, la luz gloriosa del amor y la espantosa oscuridad del egoísmo y el pecado humano. El corazón humano es un lugar de guerra constante … Lo que sucede en los corazones humanos individuales, a menudo tiene lugar entre naciones y entre individuos de la misma nación.”

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.

“Sabía que, por malo que fuera el partido republicano, el partido demócrata era mucho peor. Los elementos de los que se compuso el partido republicano dieron mejores condiciones para la esperanza final del éxito de la causa del hombre de color que las del partido demócrata.”

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.

“El derecho no tiene sexo, la verdad no es de color, Dios es el Padre de todos nosotros, y todos somos hermanos.”

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.

“Tu maldad y crueldad cometidas a este respecto con tus semejantes, son más grandes que todas las heridas que has puesto sobre mi espalda o la de ellos. Es un ultraje contra el alma, una guerra contra el espíritu inmortal, y uno por el cual debes dar cuenta en la sala del tribunal de nuestro Padre y Creador común.”

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.

“Sé que hay una esperanza en la religión; Sé que hay fe y sé que hay una oración sobre religión y necesaria para ello, pero Dios es más glorificado cuando hay paz en la tierra y buena voluntad hacia los hombres.”

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.

“No pueden degradar a Frederick Douglass. Ningún hombre puede degradar el alma que reside dentro de mí. Yo no soy el que está siendo degradado a causa de este tratamiento, sino aquellos que me lo están infligiendo.”

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.

“El hombre que tiene razón es la mayoría. Nosotros, que tenemos a Dios y a la conciencia de nuestro lado, tenemos una mayoría en contra del universo.”

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)

“The great fact underlying the claim for universal suffrage is that every man is himself and belongs to himself, and represents his own individuality, not only in form and features, but in thought and feeling. And the same is true of woman. She is herself, and can be nobody else than herself. Her selfhood is as perfect and as absolute as is the selfhood of man.”

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

“Although I cannot accuse myself of being remarkably unstable, I do not pretend that I have never altered my opinion both in respect to men and things. Indeed, I have been very much modified both in feeling and opinion within the last fourteen years. When I escaped from slavery, and was introduced to the Garrisonians, I adopted very many of their opinions, and defended them just as long as I deemed them true. I was young, had read but little, and naturally took some things on trust. Subsequent experience and reading have led me to examine for myself. This had brought me to other conclusions. When I was a child, I thought and spoke as a child. But the question is not as to what were my opinions fourteen years ago, but what they are now. If I am right now, it really does not matter what I was fourteen years ago. My position now is one of reform, not of revolution. I would act for the abolition of slavery through the Government — not over its ruins. If slaveholders have ruled the American Government for the last fifty years, let the anti-slavery men rule the nation for the next fifty years. If the South has made the Constitution bend to the purposes of slavery, let the North now make that instrument bend to the cause of freedom and justice. If 350,000 slaveholders have, by devoting their energies to that single end, been able to make slavery the vital and animating spirit of the American Confederacy for the last 72 years, now let the freemen of the North, who have the power in their own hands, and who can make the American Government just what they think fit, resolve to blot out for ever the foul and haggard crime, which is the blight and mildew, the curse and the disgrace of the whole United States.”

1860s, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (1860)

“Each colored voter of the state should say in scripture phrase, 'may my hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth' if ever I raise my voice or give my vote to the nominee of the Democratic Party.”

"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)

“If the Republican party shall fail to carry out this purpose, God will raise up another party that will be faithful.”

Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/

“But are there not reasons against all this? Is there not such a law or principle as that of self-preservation? Does not every race owe something to itself? Should it not attend to the dictates of common sense? Should not a superior race protect itself from contact with inferior ones? Are not the white people the owners of this continent? Have they not the right to say what kind of people shall be allowed to come here and settle? Is there not such a thing as being more generous than wise? In the effort to promote civilization may we not corrupt and destroy what we have? Is it best to take on board more passengers than the ship will carry? To all this and more I have one among many answers, altogether satisfactory to me, though I cannot promise it will be entirely so to you. I submit that this question of Chinese immigration should be settled upon higher principles than those of a cold and selfish expediency. There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are eternal, universal and indestructible. Among these is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs alike to all and to all alike. It is the right you assert by staying here, and your fathers asserted by coming here. It is this great right that I assert for the Chinese and the Japanese, and for all other varieties of men equally with yourselves, now and forever. I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity, and when there is a supposed conflict between human and national rights, it is safe to go the side of humanity. I have great respect for the blue-eyed and light-haired races of America. They are a mighty people. In any struggle for the good things of this world, they need have no fear, they have no need to doubt that they will get their full share. But I reject the arrogant and scornful theory by which they would limit migratory rights, or any other essential human rights, to themselves, and which would make them the owners of this great continent to the exclusion of all other races of men. I want a home here not only for the negro, the mulatto and the Latin races, but I want the Asiatic to find a home here in the United States, and feel at home here, both for his sake and for ours.”

1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)

“At 8 o’clock, the [body] of the hall was nearly filled with an intelligent and respectable looking audience – The exercises commenced with a patriotic song by the Hutchinsons, which was received with great applause. The Rev. H. H. Garnett opened the meeting stating that the black man, a fugitive from Virginia, who was announced to speak would not appear, as a communication had been received yesterday from the South intimating that, for prudential reasons, it would not be proper for that person to appear, as his presence might affect the interests and safety of others in the South, both white persons and colored. He also stated that another fugitive slave, who was at the battle of Bull Run, proposed when the meeting was announced to be present, but for a similar reason he was absent; he had unwillingly fought on the side of Rebellion, but now he was, fortunately where he could raise his voice on the side of Union and universal liberty. The question which now seemed to be prominent in the nation was simply whether the services of black men shall be received in this war, and a speedy victory be accomplished. If the day should ever come when the flag of our country shall be the symbol of universal liberty, the black man should be able to look up to that glorious flag, and say that it was his flag, and his country’s flag; and if the services of the black men were wanted it would be found that they would rush into the ranks, and in a very short time sweep all the rebel party from the face of the country”

Douglass Monthly https://web.archive.org/web/20160309192511/http://deadconfederates.com/tag/black-confederates/#_edn2 (March 1862), p. 623
1860s

“His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.”

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)

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