Thread by @blackrepublican

Frederick Douglass (fmr. slave and proud black Republican at the time) vs. Gen Robert E. Lee.

#ConfederateMonuments

"Whatever else I may forget, I shall NEVER forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery."

... between those who fought to save the Republic and those who fought to destroy it”.

-- Frederick Douglass

(1894 at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York)

"Nevertheless, we must NOT be asked to say that the South was right in the rebellion,or to say the North was wrong. We must NOT be asked to put no difference between those who fought for the Union and those who fought against, between loyalty and treason."

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

nps.gov/media/video/vi…

Frederick Douglass:

"I want the slaveholder surrounded, as by a wall of anti-slavery fire... I would have condemnation blaze down upon him in every direction, till, stunned and overwhelmed with shame and confusion, he is compelled to let go."
#BHM

“Until Haiti spoke… no Christian nation had abolished slavery.

Until she spoke… the slave trade was sanctioned by all the Christian nations of the world...

Until #Haiti spoke, the church was silent and the pulpit dumb.”
1893 re: The Haitian Revolution

"For, between the #Christianity of America, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest difference--so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as corrupt, and wicked." #bhm

-Frederick Douglass

"The man who robs me of my earnings at the end of each week meets me on Sunday morning,to show me the path of salvation"

―Frederick Douglass on Lily White Evangelicalism

“The Irish man is poor, but he is not a slave. He may be in rags, but he is not a slave. He is still master of his body.”

— Frederick Douglass

#BlackHistoryMonth

"Where JUSTICE is DENIED,where POVERTY is enforced, where IGNORANCE prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress them, NEITHER PERSON NOR PROPERTY is safe."

—Frederick Douglass

What did Frederick Douglass say about our lil' “Negro Problem”?

“There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution."

The African Lion of Liberty AND Justice.

Fun Fact: Frederick Douglas adopted February 14 as his birthday, because his mother Harriet Bailey used to call him her “Little Valentine”.

#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth