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.
Frederick Douglass: Hombro
Frederick Douglass era escritor, editor y orador abolicionista estadounidense. Explorar las citas interesantes en hombro..
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: «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.