Frederick Douglass Quotes On Voting

We may be asked i say why we want it.

Frederick douglass quotes on voting. The quote below is from frederick douglass new york speech we welcome the fifteenth amendment that was delivered on may 12 13 of 1869 i must say that i do not see how any one can pretend that there is the same urgency in giving the ballot to women as to the negro. Anthony who called for womens suffrage simultaneously with voting rights for black men arguing that prejudice and violence. No class of men can without insulting their own nature be content with any deprivation of their rights douglass said in an 1865 speech what the black man wants to the massachusetts anti slavery society. I prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence.

With us the matter is a question of life and death. Frederick douglass was one of the few men present at the pioneer womans rights convention held at seneca falls new york in july 1848. I hold that women as well as men have the right to vote applause and my heart and my voice go with the movement to extend suffrage to woman. I prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence.

His support of womens rights never wavered although in 1869 he publicly disagreed with elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men frederick douglass. Strength me man soul. Following the civil war and emancipation douglass pressed the urgency of granting the vote to black people many of whom were living in hostile conditions in the south.

The bitter years of reconstruction and the adoption of jim crow laws throughout the south proved douglass right despite the eventual adoption of the 15th amendment to the constitution which established the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of race color or previous condition of servitude. Narrative of the life of frederick douglass an american slave p54 simon and schuster. Frederick douglass quotes. If there is no struggle there is no progress frederick douglass.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. I will tell you why we want it. Frederick douglass and voting rights by linda. Frederick douglass quotes about freedom and progress.

It is not hard to imagine that frederick douglass would be disappointed were he alive today to see that a right won by such sacrifice has not been. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the.