Madison Washington quotes
A character in The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass
6 quotes spoken by or about Madison Washington, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
The Heroic Slave
Frederick Douglass
About Frederick Douglass
Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it.
Madison now felt himself no more a piece of merchandise, but a passenger
God is my witness that LIBERTY, not malice, is the motive for this night's work.
We have done that which you applaud your fathers for doing, and if we are murderers, so were they.
Mr. mate, you cannot write the bloody laws of slavery on those restless billows. The ocean, if not the land, is free.
It was not that his principles were wrong in the abstract; for they are the principles of 1776.
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