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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1997673 | Douglass gave voice to the reality of social death. | David W. Blight | ||
| d3e2d5f | Not only was Sunday a Sabbath, but all days were Sabbaths, and to be kept holy. All sectarianism was false and mischievous. . . . Prejudice against color was rebellion against God. Of all men beneath the sky, the slaves . . . were nearest and dearest to His great heart. Those ministers who defended slavery from the Bible were of their 'father the devil,' and those churches which fellowshipped slaveholders as Christians, were synagogues of S.. | David W. Blight | ||
| acee9ab | The cynic in Douglass left him saying, "Heaven help the poor slave, whose only hope for freedom is in the selfish hearts of such a people." 32" | David W. Blight | ||
| b0f795f | As he told of it over and over in public forums later, he portrayed his victory over Covey as the demonstration of the physical force necessary for male dignity and power. | David W. Blight | ||
| e538bbe | Douglass was the only black person attending the Seneca Falls convention, and it remained a matter of lifetime pride that he was among the thirty-two men and sixty-eight women who signed the "Declaration of Sentiments." He would always be delighted to be called "a women's rights man." The motto on the masthead of the North Star, "Right is of No Color and No Sex," had been no mere sentiment. 38" | David W. Blight | ||
| b13c5ad | No African American speaker had ever faced this kind of captive audience, composed of all the leadership of the federal government in one place; and no such speaker would ever again until Barack Obama was inaugurated president in January 2009. Douglass, a master ironist about America, | David W. Blight | ||
| 8ca1b36 | The AASS had established a fledgling newspaper in Salem, Ohio, the Bugle, and the indefatigable Abby Kelley, along with her husband, Stephen Foster, and others, had laid the moral-suasionist | David W. Blight | ||
| 5b48146 | Above all, Douglass is remembered most for telling his personal story--the slave who willed his own freedom, mastered the master's language, saw to the core of the meaning of slavery, both for individuals and for the nation, and then captured the multiple meanings of freedom--as idea and reality, of mind and body--as perhaps no one else ever has in America. | David W. Blight | ||
| d888bb6 | All great autobiography is about loss, about the hopeless but necessary quest to retrieve and control a past that forever slips away. Memory is both inspiration and burden, method and subject, the thing one cannot live with or without. | David W. Blight | ||
| a949087 | Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves. --FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 1855 | David W. Blight | ||
| 49032de | while Abraham Lincoln saved for you a country, he delivered us from a bondage, | David W. Blight | ||
| 4015e8f | be included among those Americans the modern theologian Donald W. Shriver Jr. has called "honest patriots," those who manifest an ironic-tragic love of country by learning, narrating, and working through its past of contradiction and evil, and not by evading it." -- | David W. Blight | ||
| 330fac4 | Douglass found little encouragement in the behavior of the Northern public during the secession crisis. The bulk of white Northerners had always viewed abolitionists with suspicion or contempt, and with the threat of disunion in the air, hostility to antislavery agitators rose to new levels of violence. By December 1860, Northern workingmen, along with merchants, shipowners, and cotton manufacturers, were deeply worried about the impact of .. | David W. Blight | ||
| e4e4d73 | We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe. | David W. Blight | ||
| 08608bd | For a former slave and then an orator and an editor whose political consciousness had awakened with the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850, who had seen the fate of the slaves bandied about in one political crisis after another, and who had struggled to sustain hope in the face of the Dred Scott decision's egregious denials, a resolute stand by the North against secession and the Slave Power was hardly a sure thing. | David W. Blight | ||
| f045a3d | It is not well to forget the past," Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical." | David W. Blight | ||
| 541e1b8 | I am no minister of malice," he said, "I would not repel the repentant, but . . . may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I forget the difference between the parties to that . . . bloody conflict. . . . I may say if this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all things sacred what shall men remember?" | David W. Blight | ||
| ea3a7e6 | When the influence of office or any other influence shall soften my hatred of tyranny and violence do not spare me; let fall upon me the lash of your keenest and most withering censure. --FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 1879 | David W. Blight | ||
| 0ae9bdc | We can only guess at the thrill in Douglass's heart, knowing that the cause he had so long pleaded--a sanctioned war to destroy slavery and potentially to reinvent the American republic around the principle of racial equality--might now come to fruition. | David W. Blight | ||
| dec9f14 | All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal.. | David W. Blight | ||
| 85c5fb4 | Well the nation may forget; it may shut its eyes to the past, but the colored people of this country are bound to keep fresh a memory of the past till justice shall be done them in the present."39" | David W. Blight | ||
| b05a45f | antebellum America, especially due to the work of the Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, who had applied the notion of "zoological provinces" for animal and plant life to the races of man." | David W. Blight | ||
| 5e872cf | He argued that the general had been sacrificed to appease the proslavery sentiment of the border states and because of Lincoln's constitutional conservatism. | David W. Blight | ||
| 0d6aa0d | As a final objection to Blair's entreaty, Douglass once again addressed the pernicious effects of colonization, which he saw as proslavery theory in disguise. Douglass insisted that slavery, racism, and future black equality be discussed as a single question, to be settled on American soil within American institutions. | David W. Blight | ||
| 6ebc325 | this terrible baptism of blood and fire through which our nation is passing . . . not as has been most cruelly affirmed, because of the presence of men of color in the land, but by malignant . . . vices, nursed into power . . . at the poisoned breast of slavery, it will come at last . . . purified in its spirit freed from slavery, vastly greater . . . than it ever was before in all the elements of advancing civilization. | David W. Blight | ||
| 592dc71 | During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave. --HERODOTUS, THE HISTORY | David W. Blight | ||
| f3928a0 | The problem of the twenty-first century is still some agonizingly enduring combination of legacies bleeding forward from slavery and color lines. Freedom in its infinite meanings remains humanity's most universal aspiration. Douglass's life, and especially his words, may forever serve as our watch-warnings in our unending search for the beautiful, needful thing. | David W. Blight | ||
| 628a23e | When the Baptist meetinghouse in Ithaca threw the band of lecturers out of its evening session, they "adjourned into God's house--the open air"--and held their impromptu meeting in the courthouse square. Some in the mob eventually climbed to the tower and rang the courthouse bell to break up the meeting. Sometimes, when they" | David W. Blight | ||
| 1db4d1a | He delivered some fifteen lectures in and around Dryden and McGrawville, New York. On October 1 he announced appearances in at least eleven towns in Tompkins County alone. The schedule was backbreaking, but on an earlier stop in Ithaca in late July, Douglass described a little break before the evening speech. He hiked a "mile or two" along the east bank of Cayuga Lake until he found "a suitable place to renew my acquaintance with the art of.. | David W. Blight | ||
| 5fd03de | Though I am not rich, I am not absolutely poor. . . . I am working now less for myself than for those around me. --FREDERICK DOUGLASS, MAY 6, 1868 | David W. Blight | ||
| 97093a6 | The Proclamation, even with its limitations (freeing slaves only in the Confederate states or in occupied areas), brought about a world-historical moment, "a complete revolution in the position of a nation." The republic was undergoing a second founding, and Douglass felt more than ready to be one of its fathers. An amazing change was under way, argued Douglass, not only for blacks and for the nation, but for "justice throughout the world." | David W. Blight | ||
| 286122d | You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan," he said to Professor Aiken." | Garth Nix | ||
| a0e8d12 | recollect | Joan Aiken | ||
| 9f39c02 | Was | Joan Aiken | ||
| c10190b | It is better not to have taken on the weight of a man or woman who has seen many winters, winters that rob the eyes of their strength. | Vella Munn | ||
| f2c027d | Clean up your own house first Before you try to clean the neighborhood | Jason King Godwise | ||
| bcd94e2 | Part of a parent's job is to Get out of the way of their children | Jason King Godwise | ||
| d94f26b | Our people perish from lack of knowledge Lack of wisdom kills our folk Most people die from stupidity | Jason King Godwise | ||
| e4a6af0 | The most important thing parents can teach their children Is how to get along, without them | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 9e1c33a | A tree falls the way it leans Make sure you are leaning In the direction you want to fall Because sooner or later, everyone falls | Jason King Godwise | ||
| a6090c5 | You can have excuses Or you can have results But you can't have both | Jason King Godwise | ||
| d420f48 | You cannot be something you are not Without being miserable Without being wrong Live right and be yourself | Jason King Godwise | ||
| c07e106 | Teach your children To live their own lives | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 83dfa88 | You cannot undo anything that you did in the past But you can learn from it Even the gods can't change the past | Jason King Godwise |