17 Quotations by Frederick Douglas
- 1. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...
- 2. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t ...
- 3. If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
- 4. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- 5. No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste ...
- 6. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- 7. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
- 8. The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Four ...
- 9. The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
- 10. They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
- 11. Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting ...
- 12. We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all w ...
- 13. What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than ...
- 14. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas ...
- 15. Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
- 16. You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
- 17. You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You ...
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