Frederick Douglass Quotes
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
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, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass
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