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Frederick Douglass Quotes

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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The soul that is within me no man can degrade  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) What to the Slave is the 4th of July  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The destiny of the colored American... is the destiny of America  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The mind does not take its complexion from the skin  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Without a struggle, there can be no progress  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Be not discouraged. There is a future for you... The resistance encountered now predicates hope  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced,... neither persons nor property will be safe  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) 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 Quotes) A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the Earthquake  (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 Quotes) Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex - what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) The relation subsisting between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all commanding question for this age and nation to solve  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Be not discouraged. There is a future for you... The resistance encountered now predicates hope... Only as we rise... Do we encounter opposition  (Frederick Douglass Quotes) Whenever my condition was improved, instead of it's increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom  (Frederick Douglass Quotes)
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