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"28 Frederick Douglass Quotes & Sayings

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Born: February 1818. Died: 20 February 1895 | Orator | Writer | Statesman |

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

Demand Did Never Nothing
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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.

Hazard Ridicule Incur Abhorrence
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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.

Any Class Conspiracy Degrade
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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.

Earthquake Fire Gentle Light
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Certainly Get Might Must
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Honest Life Nation Only
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Broken Build Children Easier
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One and God make a majority.

God Majority Make One
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Endurance Limits Oppress Prescribed
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Progress No Struggle There
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Degrade That Can Man
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

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

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

Any Calamity Dangerous Dangerous Thing
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Causes Rebellion Than Thing
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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.

Appreciate Appreciated Battle Easily
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Advantage Being First First One
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

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

Ability Application Consists Done
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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.
About Ankle Chain End
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Expected Generally Sing Slaves
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Black Cannot Happiness Man
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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

Across Bay Born Could
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitation Crops Favor Freedom
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Beneath Does Heaven Him
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Cannot Divine Inhuman Which
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

Crushing Down Effects Experience
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Frederick Douglass Quotes & Sayings