Frederick Douglass Quotes
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
Douglass, Frederick. The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One--Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, edited by John W. Blassingame, vol. 2, Yale University Press, 1982.
This Sura is the motto of the British-based international relief organization, Islamic Relief.
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
