Frederick Douglass Money Quotes
Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879. George K. Warren. (National Archives Gift Collection)
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NARA FILE #: 200-FL-22
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 113
- The page contains several money quotes by Frederick Douglass about money wealth, and slavery
- Douglass criticizes the hypocrisy of Americans who fought for independence but supported slavery
- One quote mentions the high prices slaves were fetching in the market at the time
- Another quote describes the “doeful wail” of slaves being taken to markets to be sold
- Douglass criticizes the Fugitive Slave Law and judges who were paid for returning escaped slaves
- One quote criticizes a religion that favors the rich and sees mankind divided between tyrants and slaves
“The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me”
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“You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery to throw off a three-penny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country”
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“Take the American slave-trade, which we are told by the papers, is especially prosperous just now. Ex-Senator Benton tells us that the price of men was never higher than now. He mentions the fact to show that slavery is in no danger”
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“I hear the doleful wail of fettered humanity on the way to the slave-markets, where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine, knocked off to the highest bidder. There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. My soul sickens at the sight”
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“The Fugitive Slave Law makes mercy to them a crime; and bribes the judge who tries them. An American judge gets ten dollars for every victim he consigns to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so”
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“A religion which favors the rich against the poor; which exalts the proud above the humble; which divides mankind into two classes, tyrants and slaves; which says to the man in chains, stay there; and to the oppressor, oppress on; it is a religion which may be professed and enjoyed by all the robbers and enslavers of mankind“
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“But brother John, will it pay? Can money be made out of it? Will it make the rich richer, and the strong stronger? How will it affect property? In the eyes of such people, there is no God but wealth; no right and wrong but profit and loss“
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“Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery, as a money-making system, determines with many whether the thing is virtuous, or villainous, and whether it should be maintained or abolished”
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“It is a fact, that whatever makes for the wealth or for the reputation of Americans and can be had cheap will be found by Americans”
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“Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get“
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