If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
It is not light that we need, but fire.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
What is possible for me is possible for you.
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.
I didn’t know that I was a child until society told me so. No one has any argument with children’s rights, the question is, ‘Why must I become 21 to exercise mine?’
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
To deny education to any people is one of the greatest crimes against human nature.
Frederick Douglass Quotes – Empowering Words From a Visionary Leader part 2
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
It is not light that we need, but fire.
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.
You’ve seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
I appear this evening as a thief and robber. I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master, and ran off with them.
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
It is not the light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot.
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
As a man is, so he sees.
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
I didn’t know that I was a child until society told me so. No one has any argument with children’s rights, the question is, ‘Why must I become 21 to exercise mine?’
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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