More - 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

 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

 Injustice

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

 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

 

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

 Politicians

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

 American Author God