Frederick Douglass Quotes

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  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.

  Frederick Douglass

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

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  Tags in Men, Strong, Broken

• Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

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• No man can point to any law in the U.S. by which slavery was originally established. Men first make slaves and then make laws.

  Frederick Douglass

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• To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed, and assimilated, but never extinguished.

  Frederick Douglass

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• The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

  Frederick Douglass

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• Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

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• 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

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• 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.

  Frederick Douglass

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  Tags in Myself, Ridicule

• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

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  Tags in Prayed

• People are asking me about the race problem…. I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem — whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.

  Frederick Douglass

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• The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

  Frederick Douglass

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• Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

  Frederick Douglass

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  Tags in People, Injustice, Continue

• 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

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• A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

  Frederick Douglass

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• A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

  Frederick Douglass

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• A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

  Frederick Douglass

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• America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

  Frederick Douglass

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  Tags in Present, False

• People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

  Frederick Douglass

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  Tags in People, Responsibility

Frederick Douglass (43)

Birth:	1817
Death:	20th February, 1895
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist, Author, Diplomat, Editor, Statesman

About

Frederick Douglass was born in Talbot County, Maryland, USA. He was an American abolitionist, orator, author, editor, statesman, and diplomat. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He wrote several autobiographies include: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He also actively supported women's suffrage. Without his approval, he became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.

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