45 result(s) for Frederick Douglass Quotes.
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
"In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny."
"Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot."
"Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren."
"I was not more than thirteen years old when in my loneliness and destitution I longed for some one to whom I could go as to a father and mother."
"Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle."
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing the ground."
"A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."
"I would at first leave slavery to the conscience of individuals and the character of states, where it belongs."
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."
"It is not the light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters."
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."
"The soul that is within me, no man can degrade."
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
"I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
"It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives."
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."
"Without struggle, there is no success."
"I have no patience for a man, man who will take the best seat in the house and insists that the stage has already been built."
"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
"It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
"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."
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
"It is not the light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."
"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
"It is easy to break something, but incredibly difficult to create and build it."
"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."
"I am a radical womanist and I love men. It's all in the propaganda of being radical."
