As I have often said before, we should not measure the negro from the heights which the white race has attained, but from the depths from which he has come. You will not find Burke, Grattan, Curran and O'Connell among the oppressed and famished poor of the famine-stricken districts of Ireland. Such men come of comfortable antecedents and sound parents.


The Future of the Colored Race (1886)

Frederick Douglass Quotes

As I have often said before, we should not measure the negro from the heights which the white race has attained, but from the depths from which he...

As I have often said before, we should not measure the negro from the heights which the white race has attained, but from the depths from which he...

As I have often said before, we should not measure the negro from the heights which the white race has attained, but from the depths from which he...

As I have often said before, we should not measure the negro from the heights which the white race has attained, but from the depths from which he...