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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. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

Frederick Douglass

American Author Freedom

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 Quotes

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

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. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

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.

Frederick Douglass

American Author Injustice

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Frederick Douglass

Ability American Author

We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves.

Frederick Douglass

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

American Author Freedom

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 Quotes

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

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

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

American Author Fire

One and God make a majority. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

One and God make a majority.

Frederick Douglass

American Author God

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

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

American Author Class

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Frederick Douglass

American Author Progress

[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. 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, and these will continue till 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 Quotes

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. 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, and these will continue till 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

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

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

American Author Work

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

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

Opposition Resistance

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him - Frederick Douglass Quotes

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

Frederick Douglass

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

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

Frederick Douglass

American Author Learning

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me - Frederick Douglass Quotes

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

Frederick Douglass

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous - Frederick Douglass Quotes

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous

Frederick Douglass

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 Quotes

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

American Author

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

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

Frederick Douglass

American Author Prayer

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck - Frederick Douglass Quotes

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck

Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

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

Frederick Douglass

American Author Power

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery - Frederick Douglass Quotes

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

Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

American Author Progress

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

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

Frederick Douglass

American Author

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work - Frederick Douglass Quotes

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work

Frederick Douglass

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted - Frederick Douglass Quotes

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted

Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

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

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

Frederick Douglass

American Author

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety - Frederick Douglass Quotes

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety

Frederick Douglass

Republican Party

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers. - 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

American Author

What to the Slave is the 4th of July. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men - Frederick Douglass Quotes

The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men

Frederick Douglass

Bondage Centuries Degradation Equality

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. - Frederick Douglass Quotes

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Frederick Douglass

American Author

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