Quotes by Frederick Douglass - AI Generated Quotes

Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

-Frederick Douglass

change

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

freedom

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

-Frederick Douglass

freedom

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

-Frederick Douglass

future

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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future

One and God make a majority.

-Frederick Douglass

god

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

great

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

-Frederick Douglass

happiness

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

-Frederick Douglass

learning

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

-Frederick Douglass

men

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

-Frederick Douglass

men

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

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men

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

nature

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

-Frederick Douglass

power

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

-Frederick Douglass

religion

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

society

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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time

Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

One and God make a majority.

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.

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

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

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

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.

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

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

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.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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

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

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