Frederick Douglass Quotes
They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
Head of the Sikh Religion. None of his predecessors had used arms, but he not only did so but often wore two swords representing the spiritual and civil domains.
Law enforcement is as important as the laws themselves.
Despite his recognition of this point, he too became an advocate of murdering religious opponents.
The highest court in New York.
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
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.
