“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“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 (1818-1895)
“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“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 (1818-1895)
“The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed."
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
"The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance."
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
"Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places."
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
"The opposite of compromise is character."
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“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 (1817-1895)
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
— Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
— Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)