Frederick Douglass Quotes


When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.


Citations

Douglass, Frederick. "The Lessons of the Hour." The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One--Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, edited by John W. Blassingame, vol. 5, Yale University Press, 1992, p. 579.

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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
  • Born: February 14, 1817
  • Died: February 20, 1895
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Abolitionist, Suffragist, Author, Editor, Diplomat

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.