The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
— Frederick Douglass, From John W. Blassingame’s Frederick Douglass: The Clarion Voice [1976]
- A Short Biography of Frederick Douglass
FrederickDouglass.org - Frederick Douglass In-Depth Biography
Rochester University - To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
by Frederick Douglass
Cato Institute - What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
by Frederick Douglass
Douglass Archives - A Plea for Free Speech in Boston
by Frederick Douglass
Douglass Archives - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Berkeley Digital Library - Frederick Douglass Bibliography
Frederick Douglass Institute