Douglass

[duhg-luhs]

noun

1. Frederick, 1817–95, African American activist, abolitionist, author, and orator, born into slavery.

2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

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As Douglass told us back in 1857, “Power concedes nothing without a demand.”

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I argued that Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells were doing the same work as Darnella Frazier: using journalism as a tool for witnessing and activism.

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As Frederick Douglass once wrote of personal freedom, "...there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within."

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Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass became two spokespeople for those who had lived as slaves.

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