Frederick Douglas Frases famosas
“O correto não tem sexo - a verdade não tem cor.”
Parte do lema de seu jornal, The North Star
Original: Right is of no sex — Truth is of no color
Fonte: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: An American Slave - Página xxv, de Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell - Publicado por Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0192832506, 9780192832504 - 129 páginas
“Os homens não amam aqueles que os fazem lembrar de seus pecados.”
Explicando porque os pais de filhos com escravas não lhes tinham o amor devido.
Original: Men do not love those who remind them of their sins.
Fonte: Quote of the day: Frederick Douglass on Biracial Children, Frederick Douglass, 31 de dezembro de 2013, The Root, 15/1/2017 http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/12/best_black_history_quotes_frederick_douglass_on_biracial_children/,
Ao falar sobre o seu patriotismo, e como a nação poderia exigir o patriotismo do homem negro enquanto a escravidão e o preconceito vigessem.
Trecho de discurso contra a escravidão proferido em 24 de setembro de 1847
Original: I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. It is righteousness that exalteth a nation while sin is a reproach to any people.
Fonte: Discurso " Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country http://archive.is/kJ4Bl", Syracuse, Nova Iorque (24 de setembro de 1847).
“É mais fácil construir crianças fortes do que reparar homens quebrados.”
citado por seu descendente, Ken Morris
Original: It's easier to build strong children than repair broken men.
Fonte: Family of abolitionist Frederick Douglass continues his legacy, Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 19 de junho de 2013 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-of-abolitionist-frederick-douglass-continues-his-legacy/,
Frederick Douglas frases e citações
“Eu me uniria com qualquer um para fazer o certo e com ninguém para fazer o mal.”
Trecho de uma palestra de 1855.
Original: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Fonte: Palestra: The Anti-Slavery Movement http://books.google.pt/books?id=wN9Dj-_wM0IC&pg=PA33&dq=%22I+would+unite+with+anybody+to+do+right+and+with+nobody+to+do+wrong.%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22I%20would%20unite%20with%20anybody%20to%20do%20right%20and%20with%20nobody%20to%20do%20wrong.%22&f=false (1855).
Fonte: [20/12/2016, http://archive.is/iRu0T, http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/09/frederick_douglass_portrait_unveiled_as_1st_of_an_african_american_to_grace/, Historic Unveiling of Frederick Douglass Portrait at Governor’s Mansion in Md., Breanna Edwards, 16 de setembro de 2014, The Root, 20/12/2016]
“A vida da nação é segura somente enquanto a nação é honesta, verdadeira e virtuosa.”
Falando sobre como um país pode vir a se tornar seguro.
Original: The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.
Falando sobre o relacionamento entre opressores e oprimidos.
Original: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Fonte: 10 Frederick Douglass Quotes Still Incredibly Relevant Today, Nick Chiles, 18/2/2015, Atlanta Black Star, 16/9/2017 http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/02/18/10-frederick-douglass-quotes-still-incredibly-relevant-today/4/,
“Você viram como um homem foi feito escravo; vocês verão como um escravo se fez um homem.”
Idem. Narrativa de como saiu da escravidão para se tornar homem livre.
Original: You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Narrativa de como foi ser submetido aos rigores da servidão no campo, sob cruéis castigos do feitor
Original: I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!
Fonte: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, autobiografia, cap. 10 (1845)
Trecho de uma carta de 1848 para um amigo abolicionista
Fonte: Citado em [18/12/2016, http://archive.is/bCMPT, http://www.revistas.usp.br/agraria/article/download/102/102, O movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) e a Democracia no Brasil, Miguel Carter (tradução: Imario Vieira), 2006, AGRÁRIA, São Paulo, Nº 4, pp. 124-164, 18/12/2016] (trabalho originalmente publicado pelo Centre for Brazilian Studies Working Paper CBS-60-05, University of Oxford, em maio de 2005 — pdf arquivado do cache do Google).
Frederick Douglas: Frases em inglês
Fonte: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 10
1870s, The Unknown Loyal Dead (1871)
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
1870s, The Unknown Loyal Dead (1871)
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
1880s, Letter to Bowditch (1889)
Speech at the Civil Rights Mass-Meeting Held at Lincoln Hall (22 October 1883), as quoted in The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass https://archive.org/stream/lifetimesoffrede1881doug/lifetimesoffrede1881doug_djvu.txt (1881).
1880s, Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting (1883)
Speech in Baltimore http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/ (7 September)
Fonte: 1880s, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), p. 434.
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
1880s, The Future of the Colored Race (1886)
About Abraham Lincoln https://web.archive.org/web/20150302203311/http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=4071#_ftnref57.
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
1890s, Speech at the Abolitionist Reunion in Boston (1890)
Fonte: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 10
As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009), by Maurice S. Lee, Cambridge University Press, p. 70
1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
Fonte: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 10
Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln (17 August 1865).
1860s
The Anti-Slavery Movement. Extracts from a Lecture before Various. Anti-Slavery Bodies, in the Winter of 1855.
1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
Fonte: 1880s, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), pp. 434–435.
1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
1880s, The Future of the Colored Race (1886)
“Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.”
Fonte: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 2
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
About Abraham Lincoln (1864), as quoted in Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 https://books.google.com/books?id=cwVkgrvctCcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Eric+Foner%22+%22Republicans%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOwdup3aLLAhVK7SYKHZufDmUQ6AEIRjAH#v=onepage&q&f=false, by Eric Foner, p. 6
1860s
The Nature of Slavery. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, December 1, 1850
1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)