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 DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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 -
My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS