16 Quotations by Frederick Douglass
- 1. A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
- 2. A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p ...
- 3. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and w ...
- 4. Gratitude to benefactors is a well-recognized virtue, and to express it in some form or other, howev ...
- 5. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t ...
- 6. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- 7. Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things nee ...
- 8. One and God make a majority.
- 9. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- 10. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
- 11. The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- 12. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
- 13. We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
- 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 have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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